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Legislation like the omnibus. i fully agree. if jim jordan were speaker of the house, if you were the leader of the republican team, we wouldn t have that circumstance choking the economy of our country, increasing inflation and diminishing the prospects of a better life for our fellow americans. finally, mr. jordan said, we must engage in rigorous oversight. everyone of my republican colleagues knows the person who can lead that oversight effort and works on every day and has the skill and the talent and the will is jim jordan. i nominate jim jordan and i m voting for him. [applause] because the reading clerk will call the role. ....
We saw the result. we, i say the government basically, state and federal government made the wrong decision about covid and what should have happened is instead of the government telling twitter who can be published, we should have had the open discussion, challenging a lot of these government claims that turned out to be wrong. aishah: james, where do we go from here? obviously house republicans come in and have a heyday, but i m imaging it s still ongoing with other sites not owned by elon musk, where do we go from here? the social media sites get to decide how they operate. with the caveat if they want section 230 protection they can t be publishers, they have to be an open forum. but i hope that even democrats will see the republican oversight effort this coming year as a benefit to them ....
Pursestrings. if you don t tie your oversight effort to cash for the fbi and doj to fund them, i don t think they re going to do you think the congress will tie that money to the fbi on the oversight committees? well, i totally agree with that, and i do, sean, i do. we ve had extensive discussions about using a practice called fencing which is basically you kind of draw appropriations or authorization fence around various pots of money in order to compel whether it s the fbi or the cia or the nsa to give you information that you are demanding. it s the a shame that you actually have to do that, but that is what s necessary. the other thing i think we have to use more effectively, sean, is our subpoena power. because it s not just fisa abuse and the immediate for fisa need for fisa reforms, it extends to various are other executive branch agencies, right? for example, no one s been held accountable for the shameful ....
The congress has power of the pursestrings. if you don t tie your oversight effort to cash for the fbi and doj to fund them, i don t think they re going to do you think the congress will tie that money to the fbi on the oversight committees? well, i totally agree with that, and i do, sean, i do. we ve had extensive discussions about using a practice called fencing which is basically you kind of draw appropriations or authorization fence around various pots of money in order to compel whether it s the fbi or the cia or the nsa to give you information that you are demanding. it s the a shame that you actually have to do that, but that is what s necessary. the other thing i think we have to use more effectively, sean, is our subpoena power. because it s not just fisa abuse and the immediate for fisa need for fisa reforms, it extends to various are other executive branch agencies, right? for example, no one s been held accountable for the shameful ....
Who have yet to contribute to the oversight effort. these people exist and they are protecting this information. with all we are learning today there is so much more that we are learning hopefully soon. raymond: i watched a chunk of this hearing so you wouldn t have to. you are probably glued to it. we expected captain kirk and star lord but we got adam schiff and a cast of bureaucrats who basically told us, don t worry, this may or may not be something. it could or could not. this was the most confusing crap-filled hearing i ve heard in years, and i ve covered a lot of them. we need serious oversight. the national defense authorization act has an investigative office we are paying for set up with three people manning it to look into these unidentified flying objects. here s why it s important. there may be a national security at stake here. you have new technology being employed by our enemies, and we don t know a lot about it. maybe the government does, that we and the oversight au ....