Anna Eshoo

I sit before you today on behalf of families like mine who fear that the only certainty we know could be taken away.

Welcome back the 116th Congress under the new majority, and I want to thank my Democratic colleagues for supporting me to do this work, to chair the subcommittee.

The insurance reforms of the ACA protect every American, including those who get their health insurance through their employer.

These standards were written in 2012 with the support of the auto industry, the environmental groups and the States.

It is one of the top priorities of the majority. It is one of the issues that we ran on with the promise to lower prescription drug prices.

So we are the ones that are representing the Government, and I think that, for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, you may not like my suggestion, but if you are for all of these things that you are talking about, write to the…

We know this: We know Xiomara's 10 preexisting conditions will be covered without penalty, even if we switch insurance plans or employers.

I appreciate that we have organized and are holding our first hearing, I believe that we could be using our time much more productively.

20 attorneys general, led by California's Xavier Beccera, have appealed Judge O'Connor's ruling.

I was unable to be present during roll call vote number 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, and 500 on December 21, 2018, due to a death in my family. Had I been present, I would have voted…

I don't have any other speakers, but let me just close by saying I think that, between the chairman of our subcommittee and my two colleagues and their remarks--and mine included--that these are very good bills that are going to accomplish…

I thank my colleague and my classmate, Mr. Green, for his distinguished service here in the House. He is retiring, and I want to salute him. I also want to salute my partner in this effort, Mr. Lance from New Jersey. He is going to be…

I think that you have been an excellent pair of leaders of the subcommittee.

I can't help but think that I am listening to someone whose job I created because I did the legislation to establish the Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.

We are still having issues with it. We don't have a seamless system of interoperability in our country.

I think it is important for patients to be able to access their health data, but that requires health systems to make their data available.

I think that there are policies that would help protect this infrastructure from natural disasters like the wildfires we had in California.

This is really essential in our country because it will save lives.

I want to compliment each one of you because I think you have given terrific testimony.

I am proud that the Act contained a version of Dig Once.

Madame Chairwoman, thank you for holding this hearing today. It comes at a time when we recall the public safety lessons we learned when our country was attacked seventeen years ago.

I thank my friend from Massachusetts for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with serious concerns about the missed opportunity in this legislation to take strong action against the Chinese firm, ZTE. Our telecommunications…

We must not make deals with foreign entities that have a proven history of compromising our telecommunications sector and treating our laws with disdain. When we know for a fact that a certain company or country does not have our national…

We have been in transition since I first came into the Congress on this thing, and I have been here for a while.

It has been said that people are entitled to their opinions, but not their own facts.