Silly does not begin to describe this obsession. But instead of letting this trivial pursuit go, my Republican colleagues have tried to whip up a faux-scandal about this two-day lapse in their ability to spread Hunter Biden propaganda on a private media platform. I think even the Chairman and other members of this Committee were on TV or social media about it. It was widely discussed, including on Twitter itself, even during the brief moment when links were not provided, and it was a fixture in right-wing media for the next three weeks before the election. The New York Post published the article in its own pages and it was carried by lots of other media outlets. The Majority has called a hearing to revisit a two-year-old story about a private editorial decision by Twitter not to allow links to a single New York Post article made for a two-day period that had no discernible influence on anyone or anything. This morning, we return-not to focus on expanding this robust agenda of progress but instead to take up an authentically trivial pursuit. Last night, in his State of the Union Address, President Biden reviewed the significant achievements his Administration and Congressional Democrats are delivering for the American people: the lowest unemployment rate in over fifty years, a manufacturing boom in clean energy, semi-conductors, and infrastructure, expanding healthcare for veterans and lowering prescription drug costs for seniors and diabetics, beating the opioid epidemic and addressing our national mental health crisis, historic action on climate change. Hearing on “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story 8, 2023)- Below is Ranking Member Jamie Raskin’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing with former Twitter executives.
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