Mark DeSaulnier

I must admit the longer you have these political jobs, the more depressing you get sometimes when you see human beings doing things to other human beings.

Why should it take long for us to look at the measurement and the content of what is in these products and measure it against what we already know about secondhand smoke?

There is known damage, not only to developing brains, but cardiovascularly.

you are so powerful and what you did today made you and your three colleagues at the first panel the most powerful people in Washington, DC, and it is transformative.

I want to acknowledge Ms. Pressley once again and her leadership.

they will look at us as both barbaric but as transformative if we do what we need to do.

somebody needs to go upstream and find out why these kids are going in the stream.

serious questions regarding whether Amazon should be selling its technology to law enforcement at this time.

what Perdue Pharma did was clearly criminal and morally unethical.

This important legislation will require the current federal standards for rear underride guards to be upgraded.

Americans had the right to be left alone.

I conclude Amazon is part of this culture.

if history looks back and looks at these companies as contributing to the lack of trust in American democracy, that is a hell of a legacy we will all live with.

I think, more broadly, from a regulatory standpoint, it is really up to Congress and others to say no, we are going to hit the pause button.

As somebody who has a pill in my pocket that I will take at three o'clock that keeps me alive that in Australia costs $6, here in the United States it costs $400, Johnson & Johnson distributes it.

In her investigation, she says that investors looked at professions that people trusted, and people with white smocks people trusted.

I really hope we continue to pursue this question because it clearly is a life-determining question that needs to be answered by the American people.

But we need to find that out to have a rational conversation. And I invite my colleagues on the Republican side for a more efficient look at how do you attract these investments and get what we want, longer and higher-quality lives for…

So what Mr. Howley just said is not accurate, just to----

I want to thank the ranking member. And I'd also like to thank all of the sources you worked at, the whistleblowers who courageously came forward and helped us with this.

So, in Congress' desire to, I think As Mr. Stein said, get rid of burdensome regulations, we have actually, perhaps, incurred costs that Congress needs to look at correcting so you have the proper oversight, from my perspective.

Mr. Howley, I think you just said that all of these contracts were found to be fair and reasonable. Is that correct?

Another way of saying that in layman's terms is that was the only place to go to get the product.

It would be wonderful if GAO looked at our policies in the Federal Government and the state government that have reinforced the stigma.

But my personal experience, like our witnesses today, from very divergent backgrounds, they have all had the same problem.