I want to thank my colleague Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina. I am going to talk a little bit about our visit later, but our visit was really tremendous in West Virginia.

the title of this hearing says it is the 'State of Pipeline Safety and Security in America.'

They should be treated and prosecuted for what they are, criminals.

A bipartisan process matters. We all benefit from hearing and debating each other's ideas.

We owe it to our constituents to present all options available to them.

We look forward to discussing how to move bipartisan legislation forward.

I share their frustration and remain committed to working with the chairman to address these calls with action from Congress.

I introduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act to turn the tide in the fight against robocalls.

We urge timely passage of this legislation so that the DCPs may be implemented by April 22, 2019.

first of all, I want to thank MJ also, on behalf of Senator Durbin. His staff does a great job, and we always enjoy working with them. MJ, enjoy your new endeavor in life.

If just the CPI went up $17, but yet your NovoLog is now with a list price of 237, not $17.

It is not so much wrong with Washington. We have enough problems here.

This, this article about Pennsylvania is very disturbing that was put out.

There are some who promote various levels of government regulation. There are some who want to go all the way to socialism, and some who believe in free markets and capitalism, which is where I line up.

So, it looked like you want to say a little bit more on that.

I don't want to go there, because as an engineer I believe very much in research and to do that, but if we are driving the price up--innovation is supposed to drive the price down, not up.

So many times, when we have our meetings back in the district in our roundtable discussions they talk about how people in West Virginia, probably no different than around the country, having three and four hundred dollars a month.

I am saying if--were prior to having the innovation that prices were lower, now they are skyrocketing up to 237.