Public health

You have devoted your life to fighting infectious diseases for the American people.

As many as 40 percent of public health workers have been bullied, threatened, or harassed.

I regret that many of the conspiracies have smeared you, Dr. Fauci, as you and our top scientists did everything to keep Americans safe during the deadly days of COVID-19.

According to Dr. Deborah Birx, Donald Trump's own COVID-19 advisor, America unnecessarily lost hundreds of thousands of people because of the recklessness and indifference of Donald Trump and his administration.

Public health is a matter of urgent and comprehensive public concern.

To be successful, our Federal public health institutions must be accountable to the people again.

Everyone deserves access to clean water, but we know well in Michigan that aging infrastructure has not been replaced at the rate that it needs to.

Coal mining has, and much of the abandonment of these mines, has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, polluted waters, and public health disasters across the country.

In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids.

We want people to get cancer screenings and screenings they need. We will commit to a hearing.

I want to just touch on antimicrobial resistance, something that is top of mind for us, something that I am concerned about as a pediatrician.

The two animal user fee programs we are reviewing today support the timely review of both pioneer and generic drugs at the Food and Drug Administration while supporting the agency's public health mission and gold standard for safety and…

I think this lands very much closer to your flu model, where it’s going to be with us. At some interval, we’ll take a booster. I don’t think anyone knows what that interval looks like. Sadly, people will get sick and some will die. But we…

It’s very humbling dealing with this pandemic. Every time you think you’ve figured it out, it takes a turn that you don’t expect. But, and this is the big but, the miracle drug is in our midst, and that is the vaccine.

It’s good to be back, Chris. I’d say reasonably confident. We just crossed 5.5 billion fully vaccinated individuals today. We have over six million who have at least one dose. But there’s still a small block of folks who believe this…

Along with Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin, we introduced the Tracking COVID-19 Variants Act asking for $2 billion to go to CDC.

It can't be understated the incredible role that our research community has had in combatting this virus.

If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it.