we must revitalize America's manufacturing industry.

every moment, every comment, every question, and all of the information gleaned from our witnesses are absolutely essential to this national effort to crush COVID.

Absolutely. And as I said, this includes documents submitted by Democratic and Republican Members.

we must be focused on dramatically accelerating the distribution.

It is a source of embarrassment to me that we have these gaps.

equity has to be our central concern.

I couldn't agree with you more about funding of the public health agencies. They are not in good shape across the country.

We guaranteed a market for the pharmaceutical companies to buy vaccines. So, if we can do that, we can certainly promise a market for American manufacturers of American products to be used by the American people in their hour of need.

developing new therapies for COVID-19.

I think I need to stop because I have gone over my time, but we are going to follow up with you with more questions.

I think we should have an American stockpile. This business of being dependent on other countries--some of them who don't wish us well--I think was a national embarrassment.

Congress needs to move President Biden's American Rescue Plan as quickly as possible.

I think that the veil has really been torn off every system and laid bare, what I call our country's many preexisting conditions.

This subcommittee, I think, needs to move quickly and purposefully to correct these wrongs and do the right thing.

The previous administration lacked a national strategy to end the pandemic and administer vaccines to Americans efficiently, equitably, and effectively.

We're in a race against death. We've lost nearly 450,000 of our fellow Americans to COVID-19.

This is not only a moral failure, this is prolonging the pandemic.

Sometimes--my grandmother used to say the most uncommon of the senses is common sense.