Congress should practice restraint in creating more Federal criminal laws.

This power belongs to the people's representatives.

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.

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.

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

This should scare every Member of this Committee.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the Democrats called this bill a joke. It is not a joke to put back in place the policies that worked. In fact, I would call that common sense. Remember what happened on day 1 of the Biden…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on passage of H.R. 4639 will be followed by 5-minute votes on: Passage of H.R. 6046; Passage…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chair, the government is not allowed to get your information without a warrant. They are not allowed to do it. Even if they buy it, they are not allowed to do it. That is all this thing says. It…

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

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

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?

The Constitution is not suspended during a crisis.

I appreciate our Chair for putting this together.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Before yielding to my good friend, I just want to underscore what the gentlewoman from Washington just described. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, says that our amendment is…

I thank the gentleman for yielding me time. Mr. Chair, I would just point out that my good friend from Ohio says that we are searching foreigners in this database. Well, if we are just searching foreigners, why do we have this distinction…

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…

Now they want to expand it. This is the second amendment in a row where they are going to expand FISA. We can't have a warrant for the existing program, this giant haystack of information. You can't have a warrant when you go search…