There is no room in this country for discrimination, violence, and hate.

We must not be tempted to misuse power to silence those we disagree with, or censor lawful speech.

violent White supremacy and its partner, antidemocratic extremism, today constitute the most serious domestic terror threat facing our people.

I urge you all to work across the aisle to find lasting, bipartisan solutions to this problem.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own case or cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.

I guess the big question is serving on committee.

Our decision and judgment on that would be binding.

It is an extraordinary moment that you and Mr. Cole have allowed us to have here, and none of us should be unaware of the history-making nature of this proceeding.

Last year, Secretary Haaland approved a new Constitution for the Cherokee Nation, which explicitly ensures the production of the political rights of all Cherokee citizens

We have a legal, and I would say a moral, obligation to seat Ms. Teehee.

I think we should be creative in our thinking about it.

I don't think we should be very patient in the final days of this Congress, and I think we should act with dispatch to make this happen.

Regardless of personal or moral perspectives, the Federal prohibition of cannabis is bad public policy.

Cannabis must be decriminalized at the Federal level as a matter of basic justice in the country.

the cost and the harms of criminalizing alcohol were far worse than giving people the right to make their own choices about their lives.

No, it's absolutely wrong. In fact, the people who made that point most emphatically were his defenders in the Senate during the second impeachment trial.

Well, it makes political sense in the sense that he has exercised almost total control over the Republican Party up until now.

So, it may be that the spells have begun to dissolve, and the reign of witches may be about to pass as Thomas Jefferson put it at another point in our history.

But in any event, everybody agreed that he could be tried. I mean, under our Constitution, we don't have an office of former President of the United States.

As in so many other cases in American history, the states and the people are leading the way before Congress.

Now, the Biden administration issued guidance that the past use of marijuana would not be an automatic disqualifier when applying for Federal employment.

I hope for the sake of the Republic that saner voices will prevail in the Republican Party.

I would also like to associate myself with your general leadership on this whole question of reforming marijuana laws, Ms. Mace.

I wish the straw that had broken the camel's back had been the violent insurrection to overthrow the 2020 election and the constitutional order.

In a constitutional sense, in an ethical sense, it's an absolute scandal and an outrage, and I think the American people made themselves pretty clear in bucking all of the historic trends.