Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Mullin) to discuss our proposal.

I think our public lands helps us create unity in this country.

So, Mr. Chairman, I am grateful that we are having this hearing. We desperately need to regulate and to address this issue because, as Representative Bush said, literally, lives depend on it.

We not only lowered certain prescription drug costs, like putting a cap on insulin--for example, if you live with diabetes, you now have your insulin capped at $35 a month.

This morning's Committee hearing has been pretty disturbing. ... private for-profit corporations that are getting in the middle of our family members getting lifesaving care.

We took on Big Pharma and we won, in fact, with the passage to the Inflation Reduction Act.

I mean, it is really outrageous when you think about it that folks are putting profits over the health and livelihoods and well-being of our family members.

It is to line the pockets of private corporations. This is not about healthcare.

the GDP for the United States is on the rise.

The single largest threat to the economy in the real world right now is a government shutdown.

It was meant to keep millions of Americans from falling through the crack.

It is important that the American people know how important this is for tackling prescription drug costs.

Madam Speaker, I thank Mr. Takano and the chair for allowing me to speak today in support of S. 475, which Senator Heinrich and I introduced. It would designate the Veterans Affairs clinic in Gallup, New Mexico, as the Hiroshi ``Hershey''…

We will name this clinic after him so that he can keep watch over his brothers and sisters in arms as their guardian angel. We will remember him, Gallup will miss him, a Nation will miss him, but most of all, we will continue to honor him…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, witnesses, for your testimony.

Mr. Speaker, 100 million Americans live in counties with unhealthy air pollution. Our children, our elders, low- income communities, and communities of color are most at risk. The good news is, we are addressing it. The good news is, with…

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentlewoman from New Mexico.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition today to this rule. What we should be focusing on is actually funding the government, which is our constitutional duty. Instead, we are here debating a ridiculous rule on the eve of a Republican shutdown…