Raul Ruiz

These conditions make it clear that the need for action on the New River is still present.

For residents of Calexico, this is a direct environmental threat and public health crisis.

No family should have to choose between a day’s wages and a doctor’s visit or go without care because of their zip code or income.

If you put your life on the line for our country, you deserve the right to stay in our country.

American families are facing the largest cut to SNAP in history—$186 billion—and this shutdown is only making hunger worse.

Republicans just passed their big, ugly law that rips Medicaid by nearly a trillion dollars, adds 15 million people uninsured, and raises costs for everybody. Now, to add insult to injury, they refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act…

I was a premed [student] at UCLA. … If somebody turned this in, as an undergrad, to their professor at UCLA, they would have received an ‘F,’ sir, an ‘F’ — for the misinterpretation, the falsehoods, the denials, and also citing references…

How does that happen under your leadership, sir?

As the Select Subcommittee gathers today, our Nation faces a pivotal moment when it comes to the future of pandemic prevention and preparedness.

The Biden-Harris Administration lifted our Nation out of the chaos of the previous Administration.

We must learn from the failures of the Trump Administration's pandemic response.

I think that he did the best that he could have been done under the circumstances

The whole notion of the lab leak was bundled with the complete narrative that I had just mentioned about Dr. Fauci

All of that is absolute nonsense.

It was in clear display that the Republicans had extreme behavior with extreme accusations that have been debunked over and over again

These extreme narratives have been the bedrock of the Select Subcommittee's Republican-led probe.

Dr. Fauci, I'd like to thank you for your testimony today. And I would like to thank you for your decades of service to our Nation.

I believe we need to take stock of what the Select Subcommittee has accomplished.

I made a commitment to follow the facts in objectively analyzing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

I have always maintained that my role as Ranking Member of this Committee is to keep an open mind about how the pandemic started.

We need to ensure that American taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly, and I'm pleased by the strong bipartisan agreement demonstrated on this point today.

I remain seriously concerned that you, Dr. Daszak, appear to be eluding questions from this Committee in an attempt to avoid consequences.

That is why I am asking the subcommittee to provide funding for the Bio-Preparedness Workforce Pilot Program at HRSA.

Patients with serious infections who are cared for by ID physicians have better outcomes, shorter hospital stays, and lower healthcare costs.