Jim Sensenbrenner: “This was a preventable tragedy.”

But obstruction of Congress, when there is no referee, there is no adjudication, there is nothing but a majority that says, 'You give us what we want until we find a crime, or we are going to throw you out of office,' that is so…

I've been in Congress 42 years. That's coming to an end at the end of this year. I'm breathing a sigh of relief.

I am no stranger to this debate. In the aftermath of 9/11, I stood on this floor to advance the USA PATRIOT Act. I still believe, as I did at the time, in its necessity to protect our country from terrorist attacks. In 2015, after abuses…

I did not, and there is no system that I know of that provides artists with compensation when their work is used.