Every country knows now that the United States is not the obstacle to Cuba's integration or prosperity.

I trust we all agree that the most immediate result of this new policy, the release of 53 activists... is a good thing.

It is important for parents to have their children vaccinated.

The state can now respond in one of two ways.

Absolutely, with the strong caveat that we have no illusions about this.

This kind of interaction encourages the development of a black market in which people, most important, in addition to enriching themselves, become more independent and less dependent on the state.

We would like you to react with a little bit more clarity and be flexible when so many lives are on the line.

Today we convene the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the 114th Congress.

I, like many folks back in Michigan and across the country, believe we can do better in addressing this major public health threat.

This year's vaccine is only 23 percent effective in preventing folks from going to the doctor for treatment.

The flu is and should be a top priority for all of U.S. public health.

I believe that the recent Executive action by the President on illegal immigration is categorically incompatible with the oath that he made.

I would like to raise a question about student debt. Can you give me any reason why students can't renegotiate their loans?

What I am concerned about is, we want to break through, if there is some bureaucratic hurdles, this committee wants to help.

But here in September, a decision was made for the World Health Organization to change this for the Southern Hemisphere.

I think the members remember in 2009 where, in the spring of 2009, we did decide it was important to go forward with a monovalent vaccine.

But you could do that fairly quickly during that--the issue of the Swine--from 2009.

I think we are all frustrated, we need to be speeding up this process and the science.