The health of our nation depends on it.

I urge each of us to put politics aside--I know we're a few weeks from election, but put politics aside in order to deliver one unified, life-saving message, that Americans can trust the FDA's vaccine approval process, and it will be…

Frequently people ask me, why do you do oversight hearings? And the reason we do oversight hearings is to shine the light.

my fear is that the Trump administration might force the FDA to approve a vaccine before proven to be safe and effective in an effort to boost the President's political fortunes.

I believe so strongly in that, and I believe that that's what we need to do.

I think everybody agrees that we need to make strong statements that all of the scientific principles will be followed and that this will be a very rigorous review.

I believe that I am joined by everybody in this hearing and everybody in this country in hoping that a vaccine is available as quickly as possible.

The administration must allow the career scientists at the FDA to do their jobs free from political interference.

Because sunlight is the best disinfectant, and we think the more we have experts like you coming and talking about the process and what we need to do, then the more likelihood it is that we will have a process that will not be meddled with…

I stand in strong support of this resolution. There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding partisanship from some of my friends on the other side of the aisle. I would offer the following quote, which was uttered 39 years ago: ``To a…

I want to say how much I appreciate your staying late this evening for this. Last night, I had the chance to speak about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, somebody who, as much as anyone in our history, advanced the cause of equality…

I was interrupted, but let me go back. When he became majority leader, he said the first priority would be to ``restore the Senate to the place the Founders, in their wisdom, had intended, not the hollow shell of the institution [Harry…

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Chairwoman Lofgren, for holding this critical hearing on immigrants on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We should honor their contributions to our society.

How does that make you feel? As a woman of color, how does it make you feel that, for being an American, for exercising your constitutional rights, you are discriminated against?

I always see, when I drive by or anywhere close to Boulder, Colorado, I see bumper stickers that say, 'Question Authority.' I think that's an American right and sometimes an obligation in this country.

We should make sure that our southern border is secure so that we don't allow more illegal immigrants to come into this country.

They are our family Members, our neighbors, our colleagues, and our friends.