Raul Ruiz

I am concerned that, despite urging from physicians and physician organizations and the CDC, CBP has refused to administer flu vaccines to protect children and families in their custody.

Following Jakelin's death, I visited the place where she had been held, and I was horrified by the conditions that I witnessed.

Compassionate prevention and care must be available to everyone in this country, and as has been alluded here, many people have died due to the flu virus.

It is a priority of mine to make sure everyone in my district and across the Nation has access to clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.

Can you tell me, from your heart, what more can the EPA do?

Please do, because there has been multiple fires on a property under the BIA's jurisdiction in my district.

I understand the environmental hazards that lack of consideration of environmental justice issues can have on the health, and the long-term viability, outcome, wellness, education, and development of children who have to breathe the…

I definitely look forward to working with you on the committee, and everybody else here, toward a 100 percent clean economy that protects our Nation's health.

I recently introduced a bill, H.R. 3923, the Environmental Justice Act of 2019, which requires agencies consider the environmental justice implications of the programs, policies, and activities.

In the face of our current climate crisis, it is urgent and imperative to drive our transportation system towards cleaner fuels and technologies.

There is a misleading notion when people say that it is safer than tobacco cigarettes that somehow it is safe.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Seeing firsthand the devastating effects of skyrocketing drug prices in my practice in the emergency department and speaking with a lot of patients, and I have treated patients who never got their prescription…

OK, so then why are you proposing to lease a large space that would warehouse many children in the Inland Empire?

OK, well, they are 56 degrees Fahrenheit, and they are freezing.

Is it a policy to keep a room at that freezing temperature? Is it a policy intentionally that you are keeping the lights 24/7?

As a father and a physician with training in humanitarian aid, I am outraged not only by the inhumane family separation policies...

And I agree with that sentiment and their efforts.

I care deeply about climate change because I have seen the human toll, the suffering that will only get worse as people who lose their homes and their loved ones from wildfires.

Our world is sick, showing symptoms of climate change that can lead to disastrous consequences for human food, security, water consumption, and safety from extreme natural disasters.

I introduced a bill, H. R. 3923, the Environmental Justice Act of 2019, which requires agencies to consider the environmental justice implications of their programs, policies, and activities.

We are trying to redefine what meaningful engagement, meaningful consultation is, so that communities actually have a voice.

This is particularly concerning to me because this is an environmental-justice issue.

One of the biggest concerns that we have as a Nation is a lack of cybersecurity experts to fill those spots.

I have been working on legislation to address health disparities in women's health equity

Black women were three to four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women