Anna Eshoo

I think it is time to live up to our promises to lower the cost of prescription drugs for all our constituents.

For sure, Federal leadership is going to be needed to coordinate and address the swell of the long-haul COVID patients.

My fear is that, as acute COVID uncovered our Nation's failures at emergency response and equitable healthcare, long COVID will uncover our failures at fairly treating chronic disease and disability.

This research suggests that in the United States, where there have been more than 32 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, there could be millions of long-haulers with chronic symptoms.

This morning's hearing is to examine the trends and research into long COVID, a chronic syndrome occurring in patients infected by COVID-19.

I don't want to have anything to do with Huawei or ZTE.

You saw and heard firsthand the deep concern of Members, the knowledge that they have about the subject matter, and they are reaching out with deep respect to each one of you to probe further and seek your professional advice.

Your leadership on substance use disorder is unparalleled.

I think that, as you--before you turn off your laptops, I am very proud of our subcommittee and the Members on both sides of the aisle.

We can't gather a year from now and have statistics saying this is what happened in 2021, and it is more lives lost.

More than 80 percent of the 2 million people with opioid use disorder are not receiving medication-assisted treatment.

Congress also provided over $8 billion to address opioid use and mental and behavioral healthcare through the American Rescue Plan.

According to recently reported data from the CDC, overdose deaths spiked after the start of the pandemic.

We could not have conceived of the role internet platforms would play in amplifying, recommending, and sorting content.

To truly address misinformation, we have to address root problems.

As I've said before, misinformation is killing Americans and damaging our democracy.

I think that you need to eliminate all COVID misinformation--and not label or reduce its spread, but remove it.

Representative Schakowsky and I are doing a bill that is going to ban this business model of surveillance advertising.

Your algorithms use unseemly amounts of data to keep users on your platform because that leads to more ad revenue.

We don't do filibuster in the House. That is something that is done in the Senate.

Are you willing to overhaul YouTube's core recommendation engine to correct this issue? Yes or no?

Opening statement from Anna Eshoo.

And happy anniversary, ACA.

Together that we will reach that North Star of every American, every American having good health insurance, not only access to it, but that they can afford it.

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan earlier this month, he took another step toward that unfinished cause.