democracy in its operating principle the rule of law require a ground to stand on and that ground is the truth.

This bizarre revelation, perhaps a coincidence, perhaps not, has raised profound questions about the potential for interference in our elections.

I thank you all for your answers, but they demonstrate why I've introduced H.R. 6435, the Election Vendor Security Act of 2018.

A Federal shield law like H.R. 4382 will further empower journalists to pursue the truth and hold the government accountable.

Well, why can we not vote on that? The American people are demanding that we defend our elections against foreign attack. Why can we not even vote on that in the House of Representatives? Mr. McGOVERN. If the gentleman will continue to…

I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this, but this is a point of national emergency right now. This is our democracy, this is our Constitution that is at stake. And as I understand it, every State of the Union wants election…

Earlier this week, the President put the ``hel'' and the ``sink'' back in ``Helsinki'' because our Republic is sinking under the weight of his radical actions in capitulating to Vladimir Putin in the eyes of the world. Now, some of my…

I just saw dozens of our colleagues ask unanimous consent that they reconsider that position so the American people can have a hearing on whether or not we are going to have real elections in 2018. Have you been able to discuss it with the…

I want to ask Mr. McGovern a question so we can get some clarity on where we are right now. As I understand it, one position is that the State election systems are fine, they don't need any infusion of Federal help. And then there is…

I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. McGOVERN. That is correct, we cannot vote on that.

The laws and the rules reflect the values of the people and implement our social priorities.

The Department of Labor's overtime rule says that hourly wage workers must be paid time and a half when their bosses ask them to work more than 40 hours a week.

Nobody is in love with regulation, and the biggest tax is on people's time.

I'm planning to surprise everyone by becoming the first American politician in history to defend regulation in its entirety: the notice and comment period, the hearing process, regulatory enforcement, the whole kit and caboodle.

This hearing was called as a followup to the one that we conducted in April on the content filtering practices of social media platforms.

In terms of today's hearing, clearly the majority would prefer to focus on made-up threats, fabricated, phony, and inflated threats instead of the real threats that are facing the United States of America.

The majority would have us believe this conspiracy theory about anti-conservative bias despite the fact that the Republican Party controls every elected component of our Federal Government.

the crisis caused yesterday by President Trump's abject humiliation before the eyes of the world in his cooperation with Vladimir Putin.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 14, after line 4, insert the following new paragraph: ``(4) A record of any consultation with any…

I thank Mr. Connolly for those remarks. I agree with that. I think there was an opportunity here where we could have gotten the whole committee together, but the bill does remain way too narrow in terms of addressing just part of the…

I represent the Eighth Congressional District in Maryland, and I want to give you a tale of two of my constituents. One is Merrick Garland of Bethesda, the chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in…

As a member of the Judiciary Committee and a professor of constitutional law, I rise against this uncommonly silly and unprecedented so-called resolution of insistence. We have already received hundreds of thousands of documents from the…

I look forward to your testimony today, Mr. Inspector General. I hope our conversation can be the beginning of the end of this long preoccupation with Secretary Clinton.

A lot of my constituents are baffled why, at a moment when the U.S. Government is separating thousands of children and parents at the border in a way that threatens to make us an international pariah, the Judiciary Committee and the…

We will not intentionally separate children from their parents. We will not do that. We are better than that.