Matt Gaetz

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 a member of my staff provided these comments to Facebook.

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?

This amendment contains the relevant provisions of the Reef Assassin Act, which would attack the lionfish problem that is very pervasive in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Lionfish are an invasive species that…

I thank the gentlewoman from New York for yielding, and I also thank my colleague, the gentlewoman from Florida, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, for her lifetime of service. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was my State Representative the day I was born. This is…

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for offering his insight and his views. It is certainly my hope that any animal that is delicious, like the lionfish, but that is also invasive and destructive to our environment, would be one that we…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: TITLE V--REEF ASSASSIN ACT SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE. This title may…

Today I rise to celebrate the outstanding work of the leadership and volunteers at the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge in my district. The wildlife refuge services thousands of animals each year from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Bay…

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...

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.

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 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 cannot say how proud I am to be a Floridian taking the floor this evening to talk about the great value that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is bringing to the folks in the Sunshine State. I am particularly proud that Florida was prepared for…

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

I thank the gentleman from the Sunshine State of Florida for yielding, and I am so grateful that we have been able to find some areas of common ground in this Congress on the issue of cannabis reform. I am very proud, Mr. Speaker, to…

I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding, and also for leading on the great question of whether or not we should have a second special counsel to evaluate the misconduct of the FBI and the Department of Justice in pursuing…

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…

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.

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.

I think we need to look into that question.

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