No doubt, we shouldn't leave out the small competitors who have possibly a potential for vaccine, for a cure, for good research.

I had concerns that the current administration would not fully appreciate the gravity of the situation or be positioned to take the right steps and push into action the key offices and programs needed.

I knew COVID-19 was not something to be taken lightly and that time was not on our side to mount an effective defense based on my years of service under several administrations.

Business and the economy are very important, but it is extremely important to remember that R&D is a preventative measure that provides the opportunity to be prepared.

I introduced the 'FIRST COVID-19 Care Delivery Act' to provide a path to citizenship for doctors and nurses working in the United States under the J or H visa designations or may be in the country under TPS or DACA status.

We owe a special debt to First Responders who will be the lifeline for many who will need medical care to overcome this coronavirus.

I would just like to have you emphasize how important it is to have testing sites, how important it is to continue to have the Federal Government maintain its testing sites, and how eager Harris Countyians and Houstonians are desperately…

Had it not been for the focus of the Obama administration on infectious disease and cooperating relationships with the Federal Government, there is no way of knowing how disastrous Ebola would have been in the United States.

Do you think lives have been lost throughout the United States because of that ineffective National strategy?

Returning to the ways things were is not an option.

the opposite has absolutely happened, and this administration has been an abysmal failure in keeping us Americans safe from the ravages of this pandemic.

The playbook was in the Trump administration, left behind, and it reportedly did not heed its guidance.

I ask unanimous consent to place into the record current COVID-19 statistics in Houston, Texas, as of 7 a.m. at 7/8/20.

I want to echo, any investments that we could make in the United States to go toward high-speed rail...

I would strongly urge this committee and the entire House of Representatives as a body to look into this order and similar orders given in New York, Michigan, California, to take full account of these deadly mistakes.

One of the misperceptions about our economy and manufacturing is the notion that caught on in recent decades that America doesn't make anything anymore...

Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act. Our Nation's public schools are in desperate need of repair, school facilities across the country. I come from the city of Philadelphia, where our average public…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about the very important topic of police reform and qualified immunity. Last week, I joined my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in voting in favor of the Justice in Policing Act, a bill that the…