"Nobody, after receiving a cancer diagnosis, should then face the indignity of learning that our health system can't even provide the basic generic drugs to help them fight their disease."
"I appreciate the bipartisan attention that this issue is receiving, that this hearing is attracting, and look forward to finding solutions for all of our constituents."
"I am very excited to be back on the committee and to have an opportunity to ask our distinguished panel some questions."
"I think this is a timely hearing to deal with this issue, and I am glad that this committee has taken some steps in the past."
"Our focus on insulin is really focused on saving money for the consumer at the pharmacy counter, not so much on shortages."
"What the rest of us like myself as an openly gay person, gay man, faces nothing compared to what transgender people face in this country."
"We know that the Majority oftentimes goes back to moral panic and inciting what I believe is violence and hatred toward gay people."
"Trans women do exist in our country. And trans people also face stigma, harassment, discrimination, and physical violence oftentimes much more than other communities or persecuted people."
"Catholic bishops are destroying the United States by advocating for policies that support migrants and refugees."
"Now, this week, Donald Trump promised to restore and expand his bigoted ban, he said, and I quote, 'on day one.'"
"He said that, as President, he stood up for, and I quote again, 'Judeo-Christian civilization,' which is, I believe, a slap in the face to many other religious traditions."
"Do we think that Donald Trump was upholding religious freedom when he posted that, quote, 'liberal Jews . . . voted to destroy America and Israel,' unquote?"