[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 154 (Friday, September 19, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4479]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          BRENDAN CARR'S WORDS

  (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, I quote: ``Political satire is one of the 
oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in 
power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion. That's 
why people in influential positions have always targeted it for 
censorship.''
  These are not my words. These are the words of Brendan Carr, the 
current FCC Chairman.
  This week, Chairman Carr called for Jimmy Kimmel's show to be 
canceled for using that very same satire--Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen 
Colbert, suppression of free speech.
  I don't see this administration saying anything about limiting the 
free speech on FOX, OAN, or Newsmax. Free speech is okay if you agree 
with it, but if it disagrees with you, then out it goes.
  That is the way it is in Putin's Russia and in Kim Jong-un's North 
Korea. That is the way it is in China, Hungary, and Iran. That is not 
America.
  America believes in something good and greater: free speech, free 
thought, free practice of religion.
  When we silence American voices, we slide every day toward the very 
regimes that we say we are fighting.

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