Rand Paul: “It's a pittance. I mean, it's a slowdown in the rate of growth. There are no real cuts happening over 10 years.”

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…

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.

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!