Jim Sensenbrenner

I would like to thank you all of the witnesses for very interesting and enlightening testimony from five different perspectives.

If there is any doubt that that is what will happen, I urge you to look at my written testimony...

How are we going to be able to regulate this, given the fact that the internet isn't regulated.

Again, I get back to the point that the market works.

I think it is very important that, given the mess we are in now, thank you, Supreme Court, that we delay implementation until Congress has a chance to try and undo some of the damage that this decision made.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

This is all about a bunch of politicians at the State and local level lying to their constituents that there was a magic bean collection somewhere that was going to allow them to fund everything.

To tell States they do not have to compete on those bases, because they can export their failures, tells every corrupt city mayor, every incompetent Governor, 'You do not have to have good government, you just have to be able to expand who…

All right. I hope we can get this bill passed this year, because I think there is an urgency, rather than having to start over after the election of the next Congress.

I have a bill in to schedule fentanyl analogues.

Forty-three percent recidivism rate is not very good, because the job of any prison system is 'corrections.'

The last Congress, we did have some action here but it never made it to the floor.

The chair gave some good time to the gentleman from Louisiana.

The reason we have a big deficit is not due to a lack of tax revenue; it is due to the fact that Congress spends too much money. Now, let me repeat that. The deficit and the debt are not caused by a lack of tax revenue. It is because there…

I hope you will keep us up to date on how we can patch the problems that this tragedy showed existed within the FBI's notification and sharing of information.

Well, the thing is, I can understand that with the Mississippi tip, which was the one that used 'professional school shooter,' you had no idea who Nikolas Cruz was.

The notion that we would give people guns and have them out in schools without any training to me seems completely utterly dangerous and ridiculous.

There is absolute panic in Austin. And we need to be able to be part of the understanding of the notice given to these citizens in Austin.

This was a preventable tragedy.

Both of the tips that the FBI received indicated that Mr. Cruz had the thought in mind of shooting up a school, including using the phrase, 'professional school shooter.'

There have been misguided policies where people who are disruptive at school end up not being arrested.

I think one of the things that we are all concerned about is dealing with students who have mental health issues and who have a propensity for violence.

Well, after there is either a plea or a trial from Mr. Cruz, they ought to come up here to Washington.

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