When I think about life at this level, typically motivations are sex, money, or power.

Why are we not investigating the 90 percent of the counterfeits that come into this country are made in China, 90 percent of the fentanyl that comes into this country is made in China.

A lot of this was done in the dark of the night, so to speak.

I look forward to the day when we have honest discussions in this Committee and our investigation powers to investigate our own out-of-control Federal bureaucracy that actually impacts the American people.

I do not see that this is prudent to the daily lives of American working families who are paying twice as much for groceries and gasoline than they were 2 years ago.

I am sure this question has been asked earlier. I have been in another committee.

I want to go back to the antitrust issue for a second.

3 million Americans this year will get some type of an antimicrobial resistance superbug this year.

Probably $5,000 or $10,000 a day, literally----

What is it like to watch your patients die because you don't have the right antibiotic?

Yes. When--I used to help run a hospital and you try to keep your formulary tight from a cost management standpoint.

This is why we came to Congress, was to fix problems like this.

That is great. And by the way, we have some agriculture initiatives with food supplements, feed supplements that would also decrease a lot of those bacteria as well.

I was sitting home reading the newspaper, something I still do, and last month I read an article that captured my attention. National test scores of American students showed an alarming decline in the education of our children. Reading…

Thank you, Chairman. I yield to Senator Budd.

Specifically, who? Who is going to be making less money and who is going to have less power because of this merger?

I rise in support of Senator Kennedy's resolution of disapproval of the ATF's stabilizing brace rule. This rule is a dangerous attack on every American's Second Amendment rights. I want to start by telling you why this is important. Where…

I still am looking for the way to make sure that those who have a better option have no impediments toward getting that care.