the demand--the desire, the thirst for something real that could help families across the country--is beginning to overwhelm the inside game

the price setting is being done by the pharma industry, because here is what's happened: We are here, in my view, because of egregious overreach by the pharmaceutical industry.

there are three Big Pharma lobbyists for every Member of Congress

I agree with my distinguished colleagues from Washington State and New Mexico for what they have said. Sometimes casting a vote on the Senate floor is just a matter of course. It is something we do routinely, often without considering the…

killings of environmental defenders are shockingly common in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The assassination of Berta Caceres in Honduras 3 years ago, orchestrated by top officials of a hydroelectric company and carried out by retired…

I, too, rise on the issue of suicide. Every day in America, 129 people die by suicide. Over a single year, that is more than 47,000 souls, each an irreplaceable loss. Even more troubling, suicide is on the rise among teens, vets, and law…

Too often, as Americans, we tend to take our freedom for granted, but we should never forget that we owe our freedom to our Nation's veterans.

How? Just explain how that would work.

I think we do have some organizations who are doing the very, very difficult kind of frontline work of reaching people in these groups and helping them leave the movement.

Mr. Welch. Thank you.

I think the other thing that's worth exploring is the public racial reconciliation process, which the United States has never undertaken in any major scale.

it's important to remember that the key thing people often are missing about this ideology is the critical piece of information about how a tiny fringe movement of people thinks they possibly can do what they've set out to do.

So it's really important to put this--to acknowledge that these acts are not just acts of hate; they're political acts intended to have a political effect.

The overwhelming, overwhelming majority of our contributions comes from the working people of this country and I'm proud of that. We contrast that with how my good friend Vice President Biden is raising money today.

If enacted, H.R. 51 would admit the state of Washington D.C. but leave the Twenty-Third Amendment in place.

The Twenty-Third Amendment of the Constitution allows D.C. to participate in Presidential elections.

Congress and the states would not want the few residents of the reduced D.C. to have so much power over the election of the president.

Thank you for all your years of leadership on this, Madam Chair. You have been an inspiration for us.