A couple of months ago, we had a hearing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and we were considering the nomination of several appointees to the State Department, one of whom in his written testimony had written that Our rights do not come from government, they come from God. And I will say one of my colleagues, Tim King, Democrat from Virginia, when it was his time to question, he challenged the nominee. (07:46–07:50)
CLAIM
Asserts that rights are derived from God, not government.
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