Rand Paul: “We'll talk birthers, Sarah Palin, and a comment about tapping your phone that will probably surprise you.”

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…

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

The amendment would protect freedom of speech and prevent the government from trying to restrict speech by sending the FBI to Twitter headquarters or sending the FBI to Facebook and threatening them.

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.