Brian Baird: “If we don't find some mechanism to disincentivize non-electoral interventions... we create an incentive for mayhem.”

I suggest, Mr. Chairman, that we have hearings on this, in part to recognize that as important as the United States Congress is in a time of national crisis, it is important that we have one President, preferably under the age of 98 years…

I feel compelled to be a part of the solution of an imminent threat to our democracy and really the future of our country and every American citizen.

If people in the congressional -- in Congress say that in some ways they are morally superior and they would never abuse something or that the laws should not apply to them, well, we've got a serious problem on our hand.

I think it was willful, intentional, and part of a longer pattern that is quite troubling.