"I want to talk about the weaponization of the CDC against the American people."
"This is the best country on the planet, best country that has ever been. It is deeply flawed, but we owe it to our children to fix it."
"I am particularly taken by your testimony because I am in a growing district, there is a lot of need for housing, particularly affordable housing for people that work."
"I think it would be dangerous to put it on the burden of the landowner to say that he had a farming nexus to avoid this wildlife nexus that the Federal Government seems to be trying to create here."
"If you just compare even Western Europe to the United States, does anybody know where the two worst mass public shootings were? They were in Europe."
"It is true that President Biden has expressed his desire to ban all semiautomatic weapons..."
"the debate on the Second Amendment will continue for as long as this country is a country, but we need to protect our kids now."
"One thing also that seems somewhat disingenuous about this claim from the other side of the aisle is the number of AR-15s, so-called assault weapons or military-style weapons, that were in circulation..."
"There are laws on the books in all 50 States that allow involuntarily commitment and the taking of guns, but the difference between those laws is there's due process."
"It would increase the integrity of this House, and the work product would be better that comes out of it."
"If I may, in the 10 percent where you had to subvert or short circuit the 72-hour process..."