equitable and accelerated access to COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccination.

In my book, it should be all American. This business of maybe we should do this and then be dependent on so-and-so, I just--excuse the expression, I just don't buy that.

With a new administration and a new Congress, we can optimize this new beginning.

Over the past year, our country has undergone truly profound changes due to COVID-19.

So what we are doing now is just not working, and it is disproportionately harming underserved populations and communities of color.

I am pleased that President Biden has taken swift and decisive action to improve our response to the pandemic.

Absolutely. You know, it was very apparent after the first trial that, if he were left in office, that he would seek to cheat again, that he would do great damage to the country. It is equally plain now that, if he is not disqualified from running for office again, then we can expect that, if he runs in four years, he will put the country through the same hell, through the same lies about the election, through the same false claims of fraud if he loses, through the same incendiary rhetoric and incitement to violence.

There is no First Amendment defense to ignoring and violating your constitutional duty.

As Congress continues the process of developing the next COVID-19 relief package, it is critical that this package include emergency relief for our Nation's maritime transportation system.

Health disparities are symptoms of a failed healthcare system, and this pandemic has highlighted those inequities and failures.

Well, look, this is a very different presidential abuse. And, in this case, you don’t need the imagination of senators to wonder what it would be like to be on the Ukraine front lines with Russia and have military aid withheld in order to help the president of the United States cheat in an election. These senators were there. They were on the front lines as that mob was tearing through the Capitol.

Well, Ari, that’s a very important question, because the managers try this case not just to the senators, but perhaps more even importantly to the American people.

If a president says to a foreign power secretly that I will do anything you want because I want to build a tower in Moscow, that’s not protected by the First Amendment simply because he vocalizes his corrupt intent.

everyone who`s listening, do not be quiet, do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes.

The fact that we had people on opposite sides come into the White House and the outcome was a productive meeting is something that has been way too long missing in this country.

I think that`s the direction this is headed. But I want to be clear, I have a strong preference here for the Republicans to stand up and do what is right. I want a Republican Party that we can work with, that we can trust, that we can trust to be truthful, that we can trust to stand up.

I think every elected official has a duty to tell the truth, to stand up for truth, and to call out things that are false or harmful for the American people. And whether that`s, you know, a fellow member of the Democratic Party doing that or it`s Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- I`m glad he`s stepping up. I`m glad he`s being truthful. And it`s up to Kevin McCarthy to stand up and do the exact same thing, or I very much hope his Republican colleagues will hold him to account.

I guarantee you our economy will not be fully recovered by June.