John Sarbanes

If you concluded that putting some reasonable limits in place and trying to find a way to enforce them would lead some percentage of your users to leave TikTok and go somewhere else, is that something that you are prepared to accept?

Let me go back to the 60-minute limit, because my understanding is that teens can pretty easily bypass the notification to continue using the app if they want to.

Are you looking at ways to redesign core features like the ones I mentioned to be less manipulative--excuse me--and addictive for users, and can you commit to making some of those modifications here today?

TikTok itself has acknowledged that these features and others, like the endless scroll feature, can have an outsized effect on teens.

The more time that middle and high schoolers spend on social media, the evidence is, the more likely they are to experience depression and anxiety.

Unfortunately, again, our colleagues here seem unwilling to commit to a more sustainable future.

Arguably, if you look historically, when we have leaned in with more--a more of an enlightened perspective on what we need to do with the environment, not only has that not compromised our economy, it ends up driving new economies that…

They are really unleashing more profit-making by the big oil companies, and doing that at the expense of the American people.

Last Congress, I was proud to work with colleagues on our committee to enact legislation that provided increased funding for mental health programs.

We know that there is an intersection of those crises with the addiction crisis across this country.

I want to thank all of you for your testimony today.

Governor Moore... has deemed addressing health issues as a core priority of his administration.

We have to keep building on the success.

I want to thank your agencies for their work to combat the mental health and behavioral health crises that we see.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman. And congratulations on taking up the leadership of this subcommittee.

If anything, we should be looking at ways to suss out what about their profit-making enterprise is fair to the American consumer and what is unfair.

Aren't the investments that are reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, in clean energy, in building out our future there--aren't those the kinds of investments that make a lot more sense?

It is clear that, at a minimum, taxpayer subsidies to that industry don't make any sense given the profits they are posting.

It's really an affront to the medical profession.

These abortion bans don't just impact reproductive healthcare delivery. They also impact doctors' ability to provide other essential healthcare.

What delays people in getting the care that they need is when we have these abortion bans forcing people out of their communities.

Democrats don't have to convince anybody that the Republicans have an extreme agenda when it comes to these abortion bans.

The NRA clearly does not speak for the majority of Americans.

Ever since the Supreme Court's devastating decision in Citizens United, groups like the NRA have been ever more empowered.

What that means is that for most other industries if an individual is harmed by their misconduct, they can file a claim...