Rand Paul

Free minds and parental guidance are the best means to protect our children online.

I have no doubt that the authors of this bill genuinely want to protect children, but the bill they have written promises to be a Pandora's box of unintended consequences.

If good intentions created laws, or created good laws, there would be no need for congressional debate.

But the problem is what we really need are scientists.

If it goes to him, he might condescend if he decides to do so, to let us look at some information.

There’s an internal fight in Congress.

I would think he would have a great shot.

Let me be clear about what just happened here. A majority of the committee voted to seek the truth. All Republicans voted to seek the truth. We voted to protect this witness, and hear her story. All we needed were two Democrats willing to…

“Congrats to a Great American.”

We will hand carry this over to the attorney general. We will hand carry this to the district court here in (the District of) Columbia.

Today we will vote on 2 budgets: One spends $100 billion MORE and is not offset by cuts. Pure debt. The other budget actually cuts spending by $400 billion dollars! Call your legislators and demand they vote for NO MORE DEBT!

I’m literally an MD. I operate on eyeballs.

These tariffs threaten to undermine America's strategic position in the world.

If not adopted, Congress should reject this strategic blunder of a bill that will do nothing to bring peace to Ukraine, but rather raise prices for American consumers, further weaken the dollar, destroy U.S. relations around the globe, and…

Imposing a 100 percent tariff on all goods imported from countries like China and India is the economic equivalent of shooting ourselves in the foot.

Do not let sympathy for Ukraine blind you to the reality of tariffs. Tariffs are taxes on imports that are paid by Americans.

The bill before us grants the Executive Branch the power to raise nearly $500 billion dollars in revenue. I hope I am not the only Republican left in Congress who is horrified by a bill that proposes to raise taxes by half a trillion…

To save Americans from what very well could be the largest tax increase imposed by a Republican Congress, I offer an amendment that strikes the authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on an ever-changing list of countries.

We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence.

We only have one question: Whether to hold a witness responsible for his contempt toward Congress.

Holding a witness in contempt is a serious thing, and it should be rare.

The chair directed Anthony Fauci to answer. He refused again. That is what we are voting on today - not his opinions, not his policies, not anything he said from a podium six years ago.

It’s a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over.

I think there's another legal question that the courts may have to decide upon, and that is whether or not a presidential pardon offers you complete immunity.