Reporter: Have you read the report [Biden family funneling ten million from foreign sources into their bank accounts while Biden was vice president], and do you think there are any national security concerns here?

Kirby [White House press conference]: No, and no.

Jean-Pierre: We have seen more than six hundred bills, many of those targeted at transgender youth…it is appalling, what we're seeing, the hate, the attack on this community…[Biden] supports the LGBTQ+ community…he is going to continue to lift up the community and all their accomplishments; celebrate them.

Jean-Pierre: [Biden] is proud of the LGBTQI people serving in our nation's military.

Scanlon [Rules Committee]: Contrary to the rhetoric out there, the government is not comin' for anybody's gas stoves. It's a pervasive falsehood that's been repeated for months to stoke grievances, without any truth to back up these claims.

Hank Johnson: The mastermind of the MAGA movement, Steve Bannon, who, when he first came to power, stated that his goal was to destroy, or deconstruct, the administrative state. And that's exactly what this legislation [REINS Act] seeks to do.

Hank Johnson: Four hundred and thirty-four federal agencies engaged in the rule making process, and in 2022, three thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight rules were promulgated.

[Johnson unwittingly calling attention to an outrageous excess of 'agencies' and a massive number of unconstitutional 'rules']

Johnson: Total destruction of the administrative state is the stated goal of the MAGA republicans.

[the 'administrative state' is absolutely unconstitutional]

Hank Johnson pointed out the the Administrative Procedures Act was implemented in 1946. That was conveniently one year prior to the creation of the National Security Act. How many in the 'administrative state' are intelligence assets?

Duncan [Rules Committee]: DOE's proposal to ban gas stoves are just the tip of the iceberg…DOE has plans to regulate virtually every appliance in our homes, including air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, hot water heaters, dryers, and even microwave ovens.

Reschenthaler: Last month, New York became the first state to ban gas-powered stoves, furnaces, and propane heating, in new residential construction, starting in 2026. And more than one hundred US cities and localities have moved in the meantine. to restrict gas-powered appliances, including seventy-five cities in California alone.