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On the recordJune 13, 2024
Madam Chair, I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. They find stories that agitated people on the right or agitated people on the left, and they amplified them. We are seeing this all over the place with the Ukraine war as Russia has spread story after story that is picked up by people here. It is in our national security interests to check those facts and not spread propaganda damaging to this country. Dispute it. Sometimes they get it wrong. Let's have that debate, but please let's not pass this amendment that basically says there are no facts, that whatever you say is true just because you said it. That is not correct. Please defeat this amendment. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Adam Smith
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