If I could also respond to Mr. Mulready on the point about regulators sort of looking at and reshaping agencies is not something that we need to look at.

Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed to them for half a century.

My legal career, the highlight of it was a lawsuit that I brought against the Nationwide Insurance Company for redlining minority neighborhoods all of the United States in 1998.

my innate sense of fairness makes me add an addendum to the comment that I last made about insurance rates not being purely actuarial in nature.

this is a hearing that is about how abortion bans have created a health care nightmare.

I think the Dobbs decision was a disaster, both in terms of the human consequences of it, but also the radical nature of undoing not just 50 years of Roe v. Wade, but a hundred years of 14th Amendment precedent.

I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that.

Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed to them for half a century.

for the first time in my life, I felt like an endangered species. No one should be made to feel that way.

I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that.

I think we need a national protection. I have a bipartisan bill that would protect both Griswold and Roe and restore to where we are, pre-Dobbs.

this is a hearing that is about how abortion bans have created a health care nightmare.

Thank you for your willingness to serve and we look forward to your testimony and your answers.

I believe very strongly that it is appropriate and responsible to have communications between the intel community and the social media platforms on a voluntary basis focused on foreign malign influence.

for the first time in my life, I felt like an endangered species. No one should be made to feel that way.

Because we and our House counterparts are literally the only eyes and ears the American public has between them and the secrets our government holds.

Do you agree to inform and fully brief to the fullest extent possible all Members of this Committee of intelligence activities and covert actions, rather than only the Chairman and the Vice Chairman?

But Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed to them for half a century.