Andrew Clyde: “First, I commend the chairman here of our Appropriations Subcommittee. On sections 544 and 545 of this bill, I think it…”

“First, I commend the chairman here of our Appropriations Subcommittee. On sections 544 and 545 of this bill, I think it is critically important to prohibit the funding to classify or facilitate the classification of any communications by a United States person as mis-, dis-, or malinformation. I think, though we put the policy in the bill, it is the funding that gets agency attention, as I have mentioned before. I think it is critically important to ensure that the funding that we have sends that signal to CISA that they cannot abridge Americans' First Amendment rights through modifying what people can see by classifying information. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time”