Steve Chabot: “It is disgraceful. It is a slap in the face to our close ally. And we ought to change that, and we need to pass that…”

The breadth and depth of information about nearly every American held by private companies is breathtaking and can easily be abused if adequate safeguards are not in place.

I urge all colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Every riot or act of violence or threat thereof taking place anywhere in this nation, whoever is responsible for it, is unconscionable and we on this side, Republicans, we reject it; we condemn it.

Now, may not be the time, despite what the Biden Administration and any of my colleagues believe, to release drug traffickers and dealers back into our communities and neighborhoods.