Today our subcommittees are examining the challenges we face in addressing one of the most severe health crises in our Nation's history.

These numbers emphasize a critical fact: We are currently in a new phase--a third wave--of the devastating opioid crisis.

Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago this Congress saved the American economy by extending Federally secured low- or no- interest loans to the banking and insurance industries and the American automakers. In many cases, it was the reckless activity…

Scientific integrity is not partisan. Good policy and decision making have always and will always rely on a discussion of facts informed by a scientific process.

I am proud to have introduced H.R. 1709, the Scientific Integrity Act, which would protect public scientific research.

Unfortunately, as we have heard, that is not the case today at the Department of the Interior.

Scientific integrity refers to the processes in which independent science fully and transparently informs policy decisions free from inappropriate political influence.

The Scientific Integrity Act introduced by Rep. Paul Tonko (NY), and co-sponsored by over 200 members of the House, is good government legislation.

America's scientists should feel supported in their advancement as researchers and know that they are able to conduct their research without being mistreated or unduly pressured by political or special interests.

There is no question that this issue presents a new urgency in our current administration.

Science has been the engine which has driven prosperity in this country since its founding.

The Scientific Integrity Act, introduced by Representative Tonko and co-sponsored by over 200 Members of Congress, is good government legislation.

You have got more numbers than I have got. You can put bills up here, and you can pass them because you are the majority.

The fact that the administration is hostile to all legislative action which doesn't evince a terrible hostility to immigrants and to people, to refugees who need asylum status is our problem, but it is not our fault.

It is inhuman and un-American.

You don't know of a single botched family separation? Your press has reported hundreds of kids who cannot be identified. Those are botched.

We have the capability to have safely processed the influx of migrants and deal with the situation with compassion rather than cruelty.

It is not true that we have had sufficient hearings on this.