"I don't even think the press or the media has more rights to the First Amendment than the general public."
"Another is the farmers worried about this oligopoly that exists in the meat market."
"We need not scale prejudicial regulations, but scale appropriate regulations so that these farmers--you can help them on the back end try to fight the oligopoly of four processors."
"My constituents benefit from low-cost carriers at the CVG Airport. I want to make sure they are viable, and sometimes they require a merger to remain viable."
"President Biden addressed it in his State of the Union, at least acknowledged the problem that four meat companies control 85 percent of the meat that is consumed in the United States."
"None of my 750,000 constituents. They do have concerns--and by the way, I have got some search engines on my phone and they don't include Google."
"I think we have been more active with respect to protecting farmers and family farmers than we have been in over a century."
"I think this expertise resides in your department, not theirs. Do you agree that they shouldn't be reevaluating what you have already done?"
"I think there's a honeymoon period here. I'm not sure how long it lasts, maybe 30 days."
"I ask unanimous consent to submit for the record October 30, 2023, Executive Order from Joe Biden titled, 'Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intell..."
"To the American public these look like Mafia tactics. You pay your money; we look the other way."