Matt Gaetz

We all are entitled to our own opinions and views on how to address gun violence, but I don't believe that we are entitled to our own facts.

I think that was a rather instructive moment for the committee, Mr. Chair, because as we gather here in Washington, there are a divergent series of views and inputs and thoughts.

It doesn't make much sense to me that the way to make our voting system more secure and more trusted is to empower the people who have degraded that system to come back and participate in it.

I had hoped that at one of our initial meetings we would have been giving powers back to the States in the form of removing cannabis from the list of Schedule I drugs rather than taking powers from the States.

I have every confidence that during your leadership, this committee will be more engaging and transparent and robust in the discussion than we were during the 115th Congress.

This hearing will come to order. I am chairing today's hearing because, sadly, Chairwoman Vicky Hartzler's father has just passed away.

How many does a page have to encourage violence against Republican Members of Congress at baseball practice before you will ban the page?

So I guess if a page hosts repeated content that threatens violence and that references the shooting of Republicans at a baseball game, why would you not remove the page?

So a member of my staff provided these comments to Facebook.

In this country, we cannot live in a world where unelected people at the FBI get to shelter someone who I believe was actively working against the President...

It will be totally unacceptable to my constituents to say that there was a person who went from the Hillary Clinton email investigation to the Trump-Russia investigation to the Mueller probe...

It seems like a very bizarre coincidence that the way people tended to end up on the Mueller probe was some association with Hillary Clinton.

I'm in violent agreement with Director Wray that the information in your report does not in any way impugn the incredible work that they do.

We have a substance abuse problem, and we do not want to add to it.

Tax day is a frustrating day for most Americans because filing taxes is hard. The Tax Code is extremely long and complex, and filing taxes is a complicated mess of forms and paperwork. American families spend $378 billion a year on tax…

It may have been a massive conspiracy at play. That's why we want a special counsel to look at these things.

I'm seeking an independent review with people who have not manifested their political activity to the extremes that the people have or involved with Bob Mueller.

There are over 1.2 million records the Judiciary Committee has requested. We've received about 3,000 of those records.

I think we need to look into that question.

If 14 months into this presidency there isn't evidence of collusion I think it's important to move on.

I think that the President firing Mr. Mueller would create a series of conflicts and other downstream effects to review that for the country.

I think the attorney general would be right to renounce his recusal to re-establish command of the Department of Justice and then to give Bob Mueller a time period to produce the evidence that he may or may not have regarding collusion.

We sure find a lot of ways to waste money in this town, but the EPA may have just reached a new low. We are spending $5 million on a study to force-feed rats lard and coconut oil until they are morbidly obese, then we pump their enclosures…

My hope is that this is actually neither Lockheed's fault nor JPO's fault, it is actually Congress's fault for keeping us under a continuing resolution for so long that we have been unable to adequately fund parts.

I thank the gentleman for his service on the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold), another of my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee.