Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for his leadership, his continued leadership on this subject. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring awareness, more awareness to the continued censorship of conservative voices. Leftist bias and discrimination continues to threaten a diversity of thoughts and viewpoints being represented in the public arena. It is not hard to find examples of conservative voices being silenced. In fact, we know that Democrats and the White House have been colluding with private companies in recent years to censor and eliminate conservative voices. In fact, back in February of 2021, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee went so far as to write and ask AT&T's DIRECTV to censor OAN, FOX News Channel, and Newsmax. Then, in January of 2022, AT&T-owned DIRECTV complied and dropped OAN from their platform and their channel lineup. Now they are planning to do the same thing with Newsmax, the fourth highest-rated cable news channel, or the fourth most popular one, and a top-20 cable channel overall. Meanwhile, DIRECTV carries 10 to 12 liberal news channels with a much lesser audience, and actually pays them to be on their platform. It is wrong for DIRECTV to make nonbusiness decisions for ideological reasons that are in direct conflict with the interests of their customers, their employees, and their shareholders.…”