Anna Eshoo

The murder of George Floyd has shaken the conscience of our entire country, and it has laid bare the racial disparities in policing that Black Americans face every day but for too long have been ignored.

I hope this can be bipartisan legislation. This is a straightforward bill that only impacts companies with revenues over $1 billion--so I hardly think it will crash the Internet.

How can the CDC allow this pandemic, this virus to be something political?

There have been several disturbing articles expressing concerns related to political pressure being placed on the FDA by the President.

We need leadership coming out of the CDC, real leadership.

The American people are in pain. They are grieving.

The United States today is number one--number one in the world in infections and in deaths.

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, we must acknowledge the public health impact of police brutality.

Our country is in pain. Our country is grieving. And our country is angry.

While this virus is new to our country, the plague of racism is not.

The COVID mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.3 times higher than the rate for White Americans.

I have about a minute and a half left, so I am just going to say that there is so much more work that Congress needs to do to deliver on the belief that 'Black Lives Matter' in healthcare and our society.

Our country is in pain, our country is grieving, and our country is angry.

This should not be the only hearing we have on racial disparities of our subcommittee.

The government that was supposed to protect them, has failed.

It has cost us lives.

We've been demanding answers and information from the Administration on testing, contact tracing, the supply chain, food safety and the safety of food production workers, and attempts to undermine science and public health.

We can't have a system where the price paid is unconscionable, mothers losing daughters, and daughters losing fathers because of incompetence, denial, delay, and a disorganized response.

Our top priority is the health and safety of the American people.

It is one thing for a foreign country, China, you know, to make sneakers and, you know, T-shirts and whatever. But we are talking about commodities that truly are part of our national security.

We can't treat our own people without relying on China and others to supply us.

there has been a failure on the part of the administration to use the scientific evidence

We can't have a system where the government fires those who get it right and reward those who get it completely wrong.

I think you should rest assured that you have made a difference today.

I think shame on us. I think shame on all of us that we have allowed this to happen.