President Trump has eliminated or undermined a host of Federal programs and grantmaking processes that he disagrees with.

This is the kind of sabotage he engaged in when his agents at the Department of Health and Human Services eliminated the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

I understand that the new director of the Office for Management and Budget disbanded the council, which was charged with trying to streamline and improve the policies.

As President, his job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed even if he disagrees with the laws.

It is time to pass a Federal shield law to protect the press whose work is essential to democracy.

Congress must defend actively the free press and the American public's right to know what exactly the government is doing you in our name.

Given that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that title VII sex discrimination includes discrimination against people based on their gender identity, it seems somewhat petty and churlish to exclude those words from the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thanks to Chairman Palmer for his excellent questions there.

Reclaiming my time, rather than giving actual rights to people in the position of Mrs. Kelo or Mrs. Coking, who is going to be forced out of her house in Atlantic City, this, instead, places a very broad burden on the government and in…

But the point is that as long as they are not operating in their professional capacity as a journalist, they would be able to testify about criminal activity they witnessed like everybody else and would be required to.

All of us grow up with the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about the importance of the press as a watchdog and the importance of the sunlight that the media brings as a disinfectant to potential corruption in government.

the whole country's a free speech zone.

the First Amendment doesn't guarantee that nobody's feelings are ever going to be hurt.

My parents came to America in order to be offensive and not get thrown into jail for it.

I want to ask the gentleman a couple of questions, but I want to preface my questions by saying I think that this is a terrible lost opportunity for serious, bipartisan legislation to address the problem of eminent domain abuse that has…

the critical role that the press plays for Democracy.

Forgive me for my sense of urgency, but we have election in, I think it's 107 days, maybe it's 108 days.

We must work together on a bipartisan basis to strengthen our commitment to a robust free press.

I hope it will be given full consideration.

I represent the Eighth Congressional District in Maryland proudly.

Doesn't it also say that we can't threaten to drive you out of the Medicaid program entirely because you refuse to accept one particular program that we want to impose upon you?

Not only is this legislation completely illusory in terms of not really helping people who have the problem, but it might just be struck down. Mr. Speaker, how can you cut off the people of Newark, New Jersey, or Freehold, New Jersey…

we would not have much of a democracy without the work that you reporters do.

This is a democratic emergency. The elections go right to the heart of democratic self-government in our country.

the true test of the First Amendment, of course, is if we're willing to stand up for even the speech that we abhor, even the speech that we hate.