Anna Eshoo

Our country is in pain. Americans are afraid, they are sick, they are hungry and jobless, and over 80,000 souls have been lost.

Our country is paying a terrible price today and it rests on Congress to address these threats.

we are woefully short of the estimated 30 million tests per week that we need

We, the United States, still has more cases, more deaths, by far, than any other nation on earth.

Your testimony is I think, some of the most important testimony that Congress could be hearing.

Your testimony has really moved the needle.

I thank Dr. Bright for coming forward and for being here today.

I think you are a patriot. You have been on this for more than a decade.

It is shameful in our country.

The government that was supposed to protect them has failed.

your statement that we need to be told the truth is probably the most important statement we have heard all day

I think that you are the finest ambassador in our country for scientists.

Well, my time has expired. But I have to tell you if it was my business model, I would go with consumers because they are your customers.

Another part of the solution requires investing in a healthcare workforce to treat underserved areas.

So this is a national crisis.

Are we willing to do what is needed to be done to avoid another near million deaths?

What are we willing to spend to avoid another million deaths?

People who are released from prisons and jail are 12 times more likely to die of an overdose than the general public.

I think it is painfully clear that much more work needs to be done.

It's clear much more work needs to be done.

This is a national crisis.

I think it is eminently clear that Congress must pass strong legislation to reduce the attractiveness and availability of flavored tobacco products to adolescents and teens to save this generation from lifetime addiction. There are costs…

I thank the chair of our committee, and I rise in support of this legislation that is so important for the next generation of Americans, H.R. 2339. Very sadly, there has been a reversal of our country's great progress on tobacco use, and…

I couldn't agree more that the TRI database is an essential tool especially for communities' right to know when there is a chemical release.

I want to thank you for being here today to talk about these critically important EPA programs.