We should not be in the business of protecting misinformation that incites violence.

I cheerfully concede to that proposition.

The erroneous assumption of the bill is, again, that Federal employees are coordinating with tech companies to suppress speech, a claim for which there is no factual basis.

The select subcommittee will be conducting essential oversight to understand the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

I have every confidence.

Congress intends to conduct extensive oversight on the extent to which House Democrats, and officials, and Federal officers colluded with private companies to limit, restrict, and circumvent First Amendment rights.

This amendment is very simple. All it does is to say that we have a rule of construction, clarifying that nothing in the bill shall be construed to restrict or amend the right of any private entity to develop, maintain, or enforce its own…

Our committee's mission is to protect taxpayer dollars from fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

The gentleman from Georgia says he is in favor of the resolution because he cares about Washington, D.C. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), someone else who cares about…

The gentlewoman from the District of Columbia has just made a very powerful point, which is that on a whole range of offenses under the newly revised D.C. act that they want to overthrow, the criminal law is tougher in Washington, D.C…

I am ready to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. I want to correct just a few of the major distortions that we just heard from the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana. First of all, carjacking, as I understand it from…

If you google carjacking in Kentucky, what will come up is, just a few months ago, two people were carjacked in different incidents at gunpoint in Louisville, which I think is in the State of Kentucky. Since we are talking about State…

After four years and millions of dollars spent, the Durham investigation closed as a total flop without unearthing anything like the deep-state conspiracy that Republicans have been denouncing around here for years.

Government abuses of power do not solely rest with the Executive Branch. It can, and we have seen it, come from the Legislative Branch as well.

The distinguished gentlewoman from Colorado boasts that her State is number one in auto thefts, number one in bank robberies, and number two in fentanyl, as I understand it. It sounds like they have got their hands full with their own…

The United States is the only democratic Nation on earth which disenfranchises the people who live in the capital city.

May I inquire how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 14\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I would retitle this bill 'The Insult to Injury Bill.'

Our Framers were enlightenment thinkers who wrote us an enlightenment Constitution. They wanted government to operate on the basis of facts, science, and common sense, not ignorance and superstition.

Can you think of a more egregious example of weaponizing the Department of Justice for nakedly political purposes than imprisoning and putting in solitary confinement the President's own former lawyer simply because he wanted to exercise…

I want to be crystal-clear: My Democratic colleagues and I will resist any attempt by this Subcommittee to derail ongoing legitimate investigations into President Trump, any other President, and others within his orbit.

Third, the former President had no qualms about literally weaponizing our Nation's law enforcement and military against First Amendment activity for his political purposes.

On our present course, however, this exercise seems little more than a political stunt designed to inject extremist politics into the legislative oversight function and the justice system.

I should say that none of those jurisdictions have been overrun with fentanyl or illegal aliens. All of those jurisdictions are functioning democratic self-governmental units, just as the jurisdictions in New York and Colorado that had the…

Just to respond to the gentleman before he goes, perhaps. When I said that they were returning to their worst possible instincts, that was actually a bipartisan comment because in the old days it was Democrats, racist Dixiecrats on the…