The health of our nation depends on it.

I believe that I am joined by everybody in this hearing and everybody in this country in hoping that a vaccine is available as quickly as possible.

The administration must allow the career scientists at the FDA to do their jobs free from political interference.

the President has consistently placed politics over science in the Nation's COVID response, and he's undermined, in my opinion, the independence and integrity of our public health agencies and scientific experts.

All of us on this committee, Democrats and Republicans, are rooting for a safe, effective, and trusted COVID-19 vaccine.

I think everybody agrees that we need to make strong statements that all of the scientific principles will be followed and that this will be a very rigorous review.

I regret that Mitch McConnell and President Trump have not--I mean, really stood in the way of the HEROES Act that the House passed back in May.

I continue to call on Mitch McConnell and President Trump to come to the table to negotiate real help for American families and our public health system.

Every one of us have a responsibility to the American people and to the public.

I believe I am joined by everyone in hoping that such a vaccine is available as soon as feasible.

I believe so strongly in that, and I believe that that's what we need to do.

I urge each of us to put politics aside--I know we're a few weeks from election, but put politics aside in order to deliver one unified, life-saving message, that Americans can trust the FDA's vaccine approval process, and it will be…

Frequently people ask me, why do you do oversight hearings? And the reason we do oversight hearings is to shine the light.

I want to say how much I appreciate your staying late this evening for this. Last night, I had the chance to speak about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, somebody who, as much as anyone in our history, advanced the cause of equality…

I was interrupted, but let me go back. When he became majority leader, he said the first priority would be to ``restore the Senate to the place the Founders, in their wisdom, had intended, not the hollow shell of the institution [Harry…

I just hope that we can recognize the contributions that immigrants are making each and every day in communities across the country.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Chairwoman Lofgren, for holding this critical hearing on immigrants on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

How does that make you feel? As a woman of color, how does it make you feel that, for being an American, for exercising your constitutional rights, you are discriminated against?