LIVE: Rules Committee Hearing on HR 140 [Protecting Speech from Government Interference], S 619 [COVID Origin], HJ Res 27 [Revised Definition of Waters of the United States]

Chairman Cole: It's neither a stretch of logic, nor a conspiracy theory, that the Department of Energy and the FBI's assessment is correct. And that a laboratory leak constitutes the most likely scenario behind the emergence of COVID-19.

McGovern: We could focus on literally anything…but here we are today focused on Twitter…twenty-five states, all with republican lawmakers in charge, have passed sixty-four laws prohibiting students from learning about certain things in schools [racist theories]. Republican-led states have banned over one thousand books in schools [pornography/child grooming].

Burgess: The Energy Department's intelligence figure who quoted that there was a lab leak responsible for this; as a member of the Energy Commerce Committee, I have not been able to get access to that report that the Department of Energy has produced.