When it comes to the Census, the Republican National Committee has repeatedly attempted to deceive Americans through mailers, text messages, and ads purchased on social media during the decennial count.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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