Byron Donalds

I would actually argue for our colleagues as we appropriate dollars into the future, if we say it should be appropriated for X purpose, it should not be allowed to be used for Y purpose.

Do you think we should go back to pre-COVID-19 protocols? Yes or no.

That should not actually be going out, by the way, because we are hitting the debt ceiling with $31 trillion in debt, so sending $600 billion out the door for the 'pandemic' which is already over, to me, is budgetary foolishness.

Why does the border agent have to show up every single day, in, frankly, in some office buildings down on the southern border, which are extremely confined, but somebody over at the Department of State doesn't have to show up to do their…

I think it is wrong, especially considering that fossil fuels provide more than enough that what we need for our economy to survive.

It is imprudent to double down on a losing strategy of drilling our way to energy security.

So, is it prudent to not allow for the things necessary to keep costs low in the name of the green new deal? Is that prudence?

But you do realize that without more refineries in the United States the cost of fuel for all citizens, especially those at the lower two quartiles of the socioeconomic spectrum, are going to suffer as a result?

Rising energy costs cripple them more than anybody else.

I think one thing is clear. I think if we are going to talk about reforms to Section 230...

It is crystal clear that there were elements of the Federal Government that were in Twitter's ear.

We should never tolerate medical professionals being silenced. Never.

We cannot allow for that. It is wrong. It is censorship. It is a violation of the First Amendment, and that is what H.R. 140 seeks to address.

The Federal Government must, and I stress 'must,' be very, very hands off with respect to manipulating...

Twitter had no contact with anybody from the Biden team. Is that correct, to your knowledge?

You have stated already that what happened with the New York Post story was similar to the hack-and-leak scenarios from 2016.

This legislation will prohibit Federal funds from being used to implement a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in 2011.

As we have learned over the last year, it is critical that the U.S. really strengthens its domestic energy supply.

On Thursday, I am introducing legislation that is called the Protect American Energy from China Act.

I would argue that if you have wholesale policy changes which lead to a fourfold increase in encounters, what you also are doing is having a fourfold increase in sexual assaults of young girls going to our southern border.

Joe Biden decided not to follow the law.

I'm just going to cut to the chase from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who want to state that we're using this hearing for White nationalism. I'm not doing that.

I thank the chairman for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, in short, the pandemic is over. It is time for Federal employees to go back to the office. I find it interesting in this debate that one of the things that is occurring right now is that…

That could have put American citizens at risk during the pandemic.

The administration went through a process of reappropriating, or moving around almost $2 billion from money supposed to go to the Strategic National Stockpile.