First, we must make sure that our most marginalized communities are not left behind by the renovation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE).

accountability does not begin in January 2021. There is a larger story here that if we are going to draw lessons for the future and how to do better, we have to be mindful of.

This is a charade to cover up for an abuse of power that they are going around talking incessantly outside of this hearing about Donald Trump.

I want to tell you that's very, very intentional because they know that they are using taxpayer money to defend a private citizen in his own criminal investigation and that is an abuse of their power.

I've asked the Chair and other Members of House leadership to tell the American public what kind of collusion they have been doing with Donald Trump to use the power of this Committee and of this Congress to interfere in this prosecution.

My constituents are very concerned that these smears related to Mr. Soros-supported prosecutors are anti-Semitic.

That is a fundamental effort to overturn our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power.

They are trying to influence... Alvin Bragg in some way and influencing a prosecutorial decision or witness testimony or otherwise, can be obstruction of justice.

This is a technical amendment. It doesn't make much of a difference to what is already a bad bill. But it is interesting to me that this amendment was allowed to come to the floor, and so many amendments from the Democrats, which actually…

It is funny to hear about how the Democrats are colluding in order to censor free speech on social media when the administration in control of the Federal Government at the time of the alleged horrific censorship that my Republican…

We hear that the gentleman is concerned about the censorship of conservative viewpoints on social media. But we don't hear the same concern when Elon Musk takes over Twitter and immediately takes down the accounts of six journalists that…

I have now been here for about an hour. I have yet to hear any evidence at all that the FBI has, in any way, censored any one on social media, on Twitter, or otherwise. What I have heard is a private company has temporarily restricted a…

I must commend my colleagues. Everyone is really consistent on the talking points that must have been circulated. Of course, they are not based on evidence, but everybody does seem to believe that somehow the FBI was censoring people on…

I will point out one additional factor here that I think is very important for everyone to consider. When asked what evidence there is that the FBI colluded or directed Twitter to take down any speech, the chairman offered two emails from…

I would like to respond briefly because there is all this talk about collusion between the Biden administration and the FBI and Twitter, and you can say it as many times as you want to say it, and it still doesn't make it so because there…

This bill purports to protect free speech from government censorship. I agree, it is a great idea. It is such a good idea, in fact, that the Founding Fathers put it in the Constitution. It is called the First Amendment. We don't need a new…

Let's not pretend the witness at that hearing wants this bill to be the legislation in order for social media and law enforcement to coordinate. I am happy to work with the chairman on that, but it is not this bill.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to appear so tough that 5 years of debarment from Federal employment is not enough, so we are going to make it 10 because 5 just doesn't do it. The difference between 5 and 10 is going to…

I have no idea what hearing the gentleman from North Carolina is referring to, because at the hearing with Twitter executives that I attended where the head of trust and safety was specifically asked if the FBI had given any information…

This is yet another redundant and unnecessary amendment. It is already presumably included in the exception for child pornography and child exploitation. I suppose if it is adding obscenity to those exceptions, then perhaps there is…

The best way to counter the Chinese Communist Party's ambitions is to safeguard our values, our elections, our sovereignty, and our diversity.

I hope that is a portion of the President's budget that we can have some bipartisan support for to continue that kind of work.

Our struggle is not with the Chinese people, but rather with the Chinese Communist Party that is increasingly hostile to democracy and human rights.

We cannot allow the CCP to invade our sovereignty with spy balloons, influence our elections, or threaten democracies around the world.

The Chinese Communist Party and China's government pose legitimate threats to the United States that must be taken seriously.