Rand Paul: “This is something that should not happen in a free country, and it is contrary to the spirit and the law of the First…”

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.

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…

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.