We must stop these data brokers from collecting, using, and selling consumers' data without their knowledge or permission.

We need a national data privacy standard that changes the status quo regarding people's data.

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act also protects kids from Big Tech.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA, is wholly outdated.

The bill adopts a data minimization obligation. It requires companies to limit the personal information they collect.

It rejects the coercive notice and consent system that has failed to protect Americans' data privacy and security.

You believe that is money well spent to educate the Members of Congress both on the Republican side and the Democratic side?

Field hearings are extremely important. It makes all the difference to be able to go to a Member's district.

In order for us to fulfill our Article I responsibilities of oversight and exercising the power of the purse...

I firmly believe that the way to do that is by adopting a strong national privacy standard that limits the excesses of Big Tech and makes the digital world safer.

I really urge my colleagues to act with urgency here. The harms to kids online are now very clear, and we really shouldn't take too much longer to act.

we are talking half a trillion dollars that we have identified of new spending within this committee's jurisdiction.

That requires a broad, comprehensive bill that will address all Americans' data and put even stronger guardrails around our kids.

This tradeoff is why we are here today.

It is not simply just signing a check and letting it go out the window, and let these projects happen.

The legislation before us today expands the current Federal employee political activity limitations of the Hatch Act.

They have a First Amendment right to be able to speak to those things that affect their homes and their lives.

The status quo is unworkable, and it is harming patient care.

this is probably one of the safest communities I've ever been in, in the entire State of Texas.

Enough of the misinformation. We need a facts-based approach to the humanitarian crisis at the border.

We have a mental health and addiction crisis in America, and that is making our communities less safe.

In contrast, Republicans seem more interested in political stunts like this one than working with the President and Democrats.

Get Border Patrol back to what it's supposed to do, put the walls back up, secure some of that.

We're here today to look for answers to a border crisis that is driving the flow of fentanyl--illicit fentanyl--that is pouring into our communities.

Devin didn't want to die. Devin was killed.