Rand Paul: “This is a big deal. The previous administration said it was unlawful and told them to return the money.”

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

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.

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.