Our healthcare system is in a State of crisis. The costs of prescription medicine have increased by 200 percent over the past decade.

It is really noteworthy to me that one of the most anticompetitive things that occurs is the heavy hand of the Federal Government constraining access to medical cannabis.

Ending this moral crisis is a top priority of mine as chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee and a top priority for House Democrats to keep our promise to work for the people and to make healthcare affordable for everyone.

That is why I have introduced the CREATES Act with Chair Nadler and Ranking Member Sensenbrenner and Collins to end these delay tactics.

I hope that our discussion today will continue our bipartisan work to diagnose the problems associated with consolidation and anticompetitive conduct in healthcare markets.

the FBI should notify them when a domestic abuser attempts to purchase a firearm and fails the background check.

I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of H.R. 965, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2019, or the CREATES Act.

The American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and other barriers to affordable healthcare.

I also want to praise Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis.

I think the suggestion that transgender individuals are pretending they are of a different gender is deeply offensive.

It is really unacceptable that VAWA was allowed to expire on December 21 when it became a casualty of the longest government shutdown in our Nation's history.

For more than 20 years, the Violence Against Women Act has provided really critical protections for women who have experienced horrific violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Making registration automatic will ensure that everyone who wishes to be added to the voter rolls will not have to think twice about it, and I am proud that H.R. 1 will implement automatic voter registration. For too long, Mr. Speaker…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I would also like to thank her, Chairman Thompson, Congressman Sarbanes, and the many Democratic Members who helped craft this important legislation. H.R. 1, Mr. Chairman, among many things, will make…

I would like to start by thanking my colleague, Mr. Suozzi from New York, as well as our Republican colleague, Mr. Fitzpatrick, who led the charge on this amendment process in this amendment before you. I would also take a moment to thank…

I seek the Republican response time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 minutes.

I have no other speakers and am prepared to close. Mr. Chairman, as we wrap up the debate on this amendment, I hope we have demonstrated that there is common ground to be found in this Chamber. I would like to take a moment to thank…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus) for yielding me the time and his leadership on this issue, as well as my good friends Paul Tonko and Brian Higgins for joining me in the effort today in regards to the West Valley…