Mike Lee

FERC is a very logical choice.

But again, the CBO has indicated that cutting $100 billion would not tamper with nor even touch our ability to ensure our national security.

It's just not true. House Freedom Caucus has one member who asked for a vote on something like that, but the Freedom Caucus itself doesn't do that, nor would the Freedom Caucus support that in the absence of a full repeal of the 16th…

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

It's just not true. House Freedom Caucus has one member who asked for a vote on something like that, but the Freedom Caucus itself doesn't do that, nor would the Freedom Caucus support that in the absence of a full repeal of the 16th…

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

the President claims to be a steward of fiscal responsibility, with a track record on deficit and debt accumulation in the last two years.

the President claims to be a steward of fiscal responsibility, with a track record on deficit and debt accumulation in the last two years.

It's just not true. House Freedom Caucus has one member who asked for a vote on something like that, but the Freedom Caucus itself doesn't do that.

I do, however, applaud the House Freedom Caucus for the work that its done in proposing ideas to get us on a sustainable spending trajectory.

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

We're talking about a provision of the Constitution. It is different than a legislative priority.

If you just looked at more guns equals safety, there's over 400 million firearms in the United States. If that was the case, we should be the safest country in the world. So more guns is not the answer to safety.

His claims there don't add up.

The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.'

I just want to emphasize, again, that the Second Amendment isn't something new. Yes, it is old. It's been in place since 1791.

The Second Amendment, especially in what we saw with New York's framework, was fundamentally treated and held to a different standard.

Those aren't spending cuts, those are tax increases, but yeah.

I'm against the status quo. I think we should try to move forward with a bill like this.

If we develop this, this could be another 130 years of exploratory litigation.

I'm grateful to Senator Klobuchar for convening this hearing because we're here to discuss some really important issues.

And yet this concept is not foreign to our competition policy. It's not foreign to antitrust law. This is pretty well-worn stuff.

Unfortunately, the radical agenda of the Biden FTC has made it even harder to find common ground in the fight against Big Tech.

Part of what has left so many of us cynical about what happened with Parler is the fact that Parler was--it had hit its sweet spot.

by leaving these important terms vague and undefined, are they giving the game away? Giving the game away in that this would end up being a bill about protecting competitors, not competition, or not consumers.