Our goal should be to prevent crime.

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death of children in America and kills 40,000 Americans a year.

My colleagues vote repeatedly against even the most commonsense gun violence prevention measures.

If you are serious about doing something about violence, gun violence, and other: ... not serious people.

Crime prevention is a serious topic, and it deserves serious discussion, but that's not what this hearing is about.

I fear that you have been revictimized by this hearing because this hearing is not going to provide that change.

We know that the timing isn't a coincidence because, as soon as it became obvious that the Manhattan District Attorney was getting ready to charge Mr. Trump with crimes, Mr. Trump's lawyers sent a letter to the Chair telling him to use the…

We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us.

They brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.

Make no mistake. If the concern about addressing violent crime addressed by my Republican colleagues was genuine, they would have acted.

One of the things I think that Congress has a responsibility to look at, although we don't have jurisdiction over State criminal prosecutions, obviously, or local prosecutions, what is the evidence with respect to the focus on exclusively…

Nobody is blowing the whistle on the initial price being a phony, because the PBMs... are actually in on the economics of the transaction.

Nobody is blowing the whistle on the initial price being a phony, because the PBMs... are actually in on the economics of the transaction.

The danger is that a pharmacy benefit manager... can become just a toll taker, or just a self-dealer.

The danger is that a pharmacy benefit manager... can become just a toll taker, or just a self-dealer.

Since Citizens United, we have made really no bipartisan progress on any significant piece of climate legislation.

Like public health? Like people not dying of cigarette-caused cancer?

It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included in the price of the product.