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I ask unanimous consent to speak for 2 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

But you know, I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the House members are doing, at least on the Senate side.

Well, you have people like Marjorie Taylor Smith and others of her ilk on the House side, you know, they -- what can I say?

Of course, they will, because people who don't even want an independent commission are definitely going to paint a select committee doing the work as also partisan.

The fact is that they are not doing this country any favors. They're certainly not doing democracy any favors.

Maybe he's afraid for some of his members who are running for re-election, and they want to run away from the truth of what happened on January 6th.

Not at all. They're still totally afraid of former President Trump. It's just amazing. So they've handed over all this power to Trump to continue to hold sway over them. It's more than pathetic, it is cowardly.

It's just as you say, it's their pursuit of herd immunity for what happened on January 6th. They're closing their eyes, ears, everything to what happened.

Last month, Mr. Secretary, you said that telehealth can be a godsend. I agree.

The U.S. shares a unique political relationship with the native Hawaiian community.

Do I have your commitment for that?

Do you believe that Medicare beneficiaries should have access to telehealth, no matter whether they live in rural or urban areas?

the idea here is to establish a reserve fund so that you don't have to come back to Congress in order to respond to a public health emergency.

Unless Congress acts, we will go back to the Dark Ages, with very limited access to telehealth.

I am hoping that you will consider expanding the scope of the Tribal Health Research Office to include native Hawaiians.

I have a bill with Senators Feinstein and Grassley, which passed the Senate, did not pass the House, to address some of these barriers.

I passed a couple of laws in this area to enable research.

I want to thank everybody for coming today to discuss this critical topic.