I think educating the public about this is extremely important and then being prepared for this, if it does.

You want to check with somebody now, use your phone? Tell us what Johnson & Johnson's position is on whether this is an abuse of the orphan drug status?

I have spoken repeatedly about the unlawful imprisonment and abuse of human rights activists by the Saudi Government, which continue despite promises of reform by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In fact, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi…

Every time a life is lost to suicide, it is a tragedy.

That is certainly as I see it.

I believe we have to really get back and reconstitute our mental health infrastructure in this country.

the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will mandate VA cover the costs of emergency…

I am really concerned about what I regard as the significant abuse of the bill.

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

this past December, H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, was enacted into law as Public Law 116-94. I want to take a moment to offer some clarity regarding section 903 of division J of the Act, which is a modified…

I just want to strongly endorse this bipartisan legislation that would try to start addressing this abuse on pricing powered by pharma.

the U.S. should leverage military aid to Israel in order to manufacture changes to Israeli domestic policy

I want to talk about the orphan drug bill in particular.

I want to take a few moments to discuss an issue that has garnered some attention in recent months, which is our relations with the Government of the Philippines, including President Duterte's counter-drug strategy and his government's…

I want to get this on the record thanking you for advocating breastfeeding and I think that is a huge thing that you have done.

I want to congratulate this entire committee. Every one of you finished in exactly 5 minutes, so congratulations.

Why don't we take a public health approach?

the policy that we've had... has been nation building in Afghanistan total, total and complete failure, pipe dream, wishful thinking.