Matt Gaetz

I'm a proud cosponsor of the PRIME Act. I appreciate this hearing, if for no other reason that I'm not going to eat the bugs.

I don't just think we would achieve a great regulatory accomplishment, but I think you would actually be able to sell product at a higher price to people who are willing to pay it.

Violence on January 6 doesn't justify weaponizing the government against people who were innocent and did nothing wrong.

If it is something that is unclear, we will probably put in the NDAA prohibitions so that these recommendations are never adopted.

I have, I think, the best Naval museum in the world, and I am having a hard time getting people to it.

By the way, I am one of those MAGA Republicans that would defund your salary, your agency. I think all these good things that you say exist could happen with those folks at the local and State level. This is a terrible abuse of power.

We must suspend all foreign aid for the war in Ukraine and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately.

I want to recruit talented women into our Army, and I am concerned that this weird stuff that you guys are doing is not going to make it more likely that those people are going to sign up.

To the extent that there is an impact on crime rates in major cities, I would suggest that this is exactly what you get with the 'Soros-ization' of the United States justice system.

Our criminal justice system is insane. It's dangerous. It's harmful. And it is destroying the fabric of our city.

Donald Trump was in his words, 'fierce and focused' on this historic night.

I fully share that vision. And I think the future of the country literally may depend on it.

The reality we know, as we sit here now, is while we may have paused during some years in the 1990s, our adversaries did not.

I remember back in the 1990s when President Bill Clinton said that we were at risk of a space arms race.

White House staffers are some of the most powerful people on the planet Earth.

Shouldn't you, though? I mean, here we are having recruiting challenges. You guys are releasing personnel information of predominantly Republicans to a Democrat opposition research firm.

I would suggest that that is misguided. I have heard directly from people that this embrace of DEI and 'White fragility' and 'White rage' harms our recruiting effort in the area of the country where we do our best recruiting, in the…

I agree with that. We have got a younger generation that is too dumb, fat, slow, addicted, and on video games to be eligible to serve in the military.

ATF bureaucrats are not only ignoring the direction of Congress, they are literally ignoring the law and trying to rewrite it themselves, a complete separation of powers.

Absolutely shameful.

But do any of you remember Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious?

The rights of the American people this shall not be infringed, period.

I have not seen my Democrat colleagues defend innocent life, but they want to use these talking points of children in tragic, horrible scenarios as a political pawn to regulate law-abiding citizens.

The Second Amendment is about maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary.

If you think the ATF is going to be successful in this, making millions of Americans felons through this rule, that is an overreach of the separation of powers.