Jerry Nadler

The MMA helped address some of those glaring inequities and efficiencies in the music marketplace.

I was proud to join with my colleagues five years ago to sponsor and pass the landmark Music Modernization Act.

It is also an important driver of economic activity.

Music nourishes the soul. It expresses powerful ideas and emotions, and it connects us across cultures.

Thank you, Chair Issa, for hosting and calling this field hearing.

So, because you provided this opportunity, I do have to plug AMFA, sound recording owners, and performers need to have that right.

I am pleased that we have the opportunity today to examine how the law is operating five years later.

It is clear that artists, consumers, and businesses all depend on a healthy music industry to thrive, and that is why I was proud to join with my colleagues five years ago to sponsor and pass the landmark Music Modernization Act.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, for holding this hearing and for bringing the Subcommittee to Nashville, one of the great music cities of the world.

In most recent administrations, the President took the advice with respect to pardons and clemencies from the administration of the pardoned attorney.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. Presidential Election.

You lost all the cases you brought to trial, correct?

You only filed three criminal cases. You only brought two cases to trial.

Your investigation cost more than $6.5 million, involved the work of dozens of FBI employees and Federal prosecutors.

Let me remind you that Donald Trump was Federally indicted on 37 counts for mishandling classified information--37 counts.

Your report reads like a defense of the Trump Campaign and an attack on Hillary Clinton because that's exactly what it is.

Some of my colleagues across the aisle have started calling this the, quote, 'Russia hoax.' It's the theory that Russia did not actually interfere in the 2016 Presidential Election.

The origin of the investigation was not the Steele Dossier. It was not Alfa Bank.

Your investigation found nothing to dispute this fact, correct?

George Papadopoulos was a Foreign Policy Adviser to the Trump Campaign in Spring 2016.

Your report did not make any specific concrete recommendations to improve DOJ or FBI policies or procedures.

Judging from what the gentlewoman just said, the gentlewoman does not understand the process at all. Courts do not enforce guidance, so we are not prohibiting them here from doing what they do not do to start with. Courts do not enforce…

As agency heads have stated time and time again, guidance documents, general statements of policy, and other agency guidance do not have the force and effect of law, and the agencies do not take enforcement actions based on supervisory…

I urge my colleagues to oppose this dangerously flawed legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Why the COVID-19 vaccine should be more politicized than any other vaccine, I don't know. I don't understand that. And why the COVID-19 vaccine is considered by the gentleman to be politicized, I don't understand that either. It is just…