Jim Jordan

I want to thank our witnesses for coming.

As Justice Scalia once explained, "It is the very business of government to favor and disfavor points of view on innumerable subjects."

What does the Biden Administration have up their sleeve in these last six months before the election? What are they going to try to censor now?

We are doing something we know not to be accurate. We're going to take that is disinformation from our government.

The implications were huge. Again, the First Amendment protects false speech.

Maybe the most important point is when you violate the First Amendment, public debate gets distorted and when that happens, you get bad policy.

This power belongs to the people's representatives.

Congress should practice restraint in creating more Federal criminal laws.

This should scare every Member of this Committee.

Even for Democrats this should be concerning. Because if it's Donald Trump today, it could be you tomorrow.

I've worked in the criminal justice system for over 25 years and cannot believe how the current DOJ is choosing to throw away the rule of law to attack political enemies.

When Congress oversteps into the traditionally State-held criminal prosecution space, State offenses can be unnecessarily replicated, making everything a crime and everyone a potential criminal.

To say that there was no certainty and no outcome from these hearings, I am proud of the work this Select Subcommittee has done.

Yes or no, in your professional medical experience and Harvard education, as the Surgeon General of Florida, are Democrats and liberals immune to COVID-19?

What we experienced during the pandemic from Democratic Governors and local leaders with their hypocritical and unscientific policies is the closest thing you will ever see to fascism in the history of this country.

They said for the first time in history, we have a virus where there's no natural immunity.

We, the Biden Administration, are working to limit what those social media platforms can post.

They said if you got the vaccinated you couldn't get it. They said if you got the vaccinated you couldn't transmit it.

I appreciate our Chair for putting this together.

They told us it wasn't our tax dollars using the lab in China. Yes, it was. Yes, it was.

I tell people all the time, if you can't talk--it's the most important right you have because if you can't talk, you can't practice your faith, can't share your faith, and can't petition your government.

You had to meet them somewhere else. Couldn't meet them at your Capitol.

Every single liberty we enjoy under the First Amendment was assaulted during COVID, every single one.

The Constitution is not suspended during a crisis.

I will close my time by saying, Mr. Chairman, every time you expand FISA, you underscore the need for a warrant. The bigger and bigger this database gets and the more that U.S. persons are going to be searched, you underscore the need for…