Well, thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for holding this very important hearing on our legislation to address the Trump administration's sabotage on affordable healthcare for our families back home, including my bill, H.R. 1010, that will…

I am very concerned that the public is being snookered here.

See, working families across America, they remember well the attempt by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress to repeal the ACA in its entirety, including the protection on preexisting conditions.

It really appears to be a cynical ploy to lure families into these plans that were too prevalent before the Affordable Care Act.

I just don't see how that's disputable.

Representative Castor's bill would rescind the rule that expanded these junk insurance plans.

I think we need to be very careful about crossing the line from aspirational to outlandish goals.

It really is difficult to understand why the administration is promoting plans that do not provide adequate coverage.

I think in the name of 17 people, I can pledge to you that I will support any law that will prevent a killer like this from getting a gun.

So from Florida's perspective, we cannot let this fail, and despite attempts to make it fail it has still thrived for us to still be the largest Federal exchange in the Nation.

So sabotage of the ACA--allow me to count the ways. Let me just go through the top five as I see it: first, eliminating cost-sharing subsidies, that raised rates; second, cutting enrollment period in half; third, cutting marketing dollars…

I want to reiterate to the administration, we have introduced bipartisan legislation to extend TPS to Venezuelans.

I have been saying that, to me, that is a national security threat to the United States. Am I wrong?

The problems that--when I have looked at the numbers, they don't seem to add up.

if there is a tougher, a smarter, a person with more integrity anywhere in this planet, frankly, I haven't met her.

I think that the threat that we are facing right now in this hemisphere... is, frankly, equivalent to... anything that we are seeing anywhere around the world right now.

The reality of the Maduro's dictatorship is that you have, you know, Cuban intel and military folks there; you have got Russian presence; you have got Chinese presence; you have got Iranian presence; you have got terrorist organizations…

Because we want to get to 80 percent fifth gen and 20 percent fourth gen, but the F-15C is not going to make it.