Disclosure laws do not silence speech, they simply ask you to stand by it.

I am committed to upholding Americans' First Amendment right to support candidates, causes, organizations of their choice without fear or retribution.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

He won the election.

Political speech is protected speech. Our Founding Fathers enshrined the First Amendment in the Constitution.

Last Congress every single House Democrat voted to allow Federal funds to be used toward their political campaigns.

It seems to me that many of the people putting hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars into dark money and trying to influence elections without disclosure hardly would be termed the meek.

This bill would be a big step backward in that respect.

Thirteen years after the decision, our disclosure laws have not kept pace with how money is spent in elections.

Thank you, Chairman Steil, and thank you for convening this morning's hearing on the Office of the House Sergeant at Arms and its Strategic Plan for the 118th Congress.

I'm sort of interested. You talked, and I think this makes a great deal of sense, about investing in the staff, making sure people know that there are opportunities, for them to be given opportunities for growth within the organization.

I think we would all want to make sure that, particularly given January 6 and concerns about safety, that we would, as I said, err on the side of caution.