Today, our Committee is going to focus on two extremely important health care issues that must be addressed.

This would be transformational. It is a bill that is going to force corporate health care to accept transparency and competition.

Today, our Committee is going to focus on two extremely important health care issues that must be addressed.

First are the major need for more Black, Latino, and Native American doctors and medical professionals.

This would be transformational. It is a bill that is going to force corporate health care to accept transparency and competition.

I believe the economic danger is deadly real.

We need to pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, introduced by Senator Booker and Senator Butler.

Second, the alarming rate of maternal deaths in America that is disproportionately impacting Black, Latino, and Native American women.

I think it's time to ask the people who caused that problem or lied about that situation to pick up the bill.

Big Oil is frankly the new Big Tobacco.

The result of that is that countries all over the world were very slow moving in attempting to deal with climate change.

They have been consistently misleading the public about the realities and implications of their products.

If you were Attorney General of the United States, would you proceed in that direction?

If a large corporation knowingly, knowingly--produces a product that gets me sick or kills me, I would assume that we have an abundance of laws to prosecute that company and to hold them accountable and to demand punitive damages.

The obvious way to fend off these economic shocks is to head off the cause of those shocks, fossil fuel emissions.

What is protecting the massive fossil fuel subsidies and what is preventing policies to reduce the danger is the same thing, the fossil fuel industry itself.

I believe the economic danger is deadly real.

It is unacceptable that life expectancy on average, which is low in America in general, is about 5 years lower for Black Americans and 11 years lower for Native Americans than it is for White Americans.