Let's begin with the basic premise that exceptional qualifications, not race, skin, color, gender, or religion should be the most important factor when evaluating a judicial nominee.

By allowing Big Tech to operate under Section 230 as is, we will be allowing these companies to get our children hooked on their destructive products for their own profit.

I believe that we will show today, although the goal of more women and more broadly diversity, that we also recognize that we want to select, going forward, the best and the brightest and most qualified...

Nomination to the bench should not be decided by identity politics but instead by qualifications.

Mr. Chair, thank you for the time and the hearing. This is a bipartisan concern, and so we treat it as such.

We have spent nearly two years understanding the complex problems posed by big tech companies that have full control over their marketplaces and now we finally turn to the big question which is, how do we fix this?

What we are dealing with here is what happens when big tech becomes too big.

I am very concerned how anticompetitive conduct by dominant firms, like self-preferencing, is undermining innovation and preventing competitors from entering the market with better services.

That is why Congress enacted the antitrust laws more than a century ago, to keep our economy competitive and to avoid the immense concentration of economic power that we see today.

Unfair and anticompetitive practices by online platform giants are literally killing the ability of consumers to receive robust and probing local news coverage.

The vitality of a broad, diverse journalism field is imperative to the success of our republic.

We should recognize that a free and vibrant press is essential to the workings of our democracy.

It has been over two months since the U.S. Capitol was attacked. Our Committee has held no hearings, and there are none scheduled. This is unacceptable.

I wish all sides could put the weapons down.

The Committee has held no hearings yet. There are none scheduled, and it is unacceptable.

Mr. Johnson of Louisiana. That is a motion.

The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer in Big Tech today, and we are looking for solutions because it is clear that without intervention nothing is going to rebalance the scales.

I thank the distinguished Chair. I appreciate that very much. Thanks to all our Witnesses for sharing your time and expertise with us today.

Throughout the 15-month investigation that preceded these solutions focused hearing, I kept seeing the same thing over and over again, a bigger guy taking advantage of the smaller guy.

Our Special Order tonight is to honor a dear friend, one who would have been a colleague of ours here, and a great tragedy. Congressman-elect Luke Joshua Letlow, from Start, Louisiana, passed away from complications due to COVID-19 on…

I thank my friend, Garret Graves of Louisiana, for those poignant words. The funeral service was like that, with recollections from close friends. We could have sat there all afternoon and reveled in it. Madam Speaker, I am delighted to…

I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado for her words. That was very appropriate. I was going to cite the same scripture. I will just say this as we close tonight: The night we got word of Luke's passing was December 29, and that word, the…

I am delighted to introduce another member of the Louisiana delegation for remarks in our Special Order tonight. We are going in, it seems to be, reverse order by seniority, but I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), my…

I thank the whip for those great remarks and his great leadership, and I know Luke appreciated that as well. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert).

We have a few others from the class that Luke Letlow would have been proud to serve in, some of the rising leaders here. I will call on them in no particular order here, but I yield to another gentleman from Texas (Mr. Fallon), if he is…