"After 4 years of constantly defending attacks on clean energy and the environment, this hearing establishes a night-and-day difference in priorities in leadership on climate and the environment."
"So what we are doing now is just not working, and it is disproportionately harming underserved populations and communities of color."
"This is not only a moral failure, this is prolonging the pandemic."
"We need a science-based public health approach that serves the hard-to-reach communities."
"Health disparities are symptoms of a failed healthcare system, and this pandemic has highlighted those inequities and failures."
"the current system has left out these communities and rendered them high risk of getting infected and dying to begin with."
"I want to also echo the sentiments of our colleague, Congressman O'Halleran, who has been a champion for Indian country and health equity in our Nation."
"It is kind of stunning to me that we still have to hold these hearings on the importance of the Affordable Care Act, that the Affordable Care Act is still under attack, that it is still under the thre..."
"And yet this administration and some House and Senate Republicans continue to try to chip away at the ACA, while also attempting to completely overturn the law in court."
"You know, as an emergency medicine physician, I know we need more access to care, not less."
"There is no better time to invest in harnessing solar energy to lower utility bills, reduce carbon emissions, and save our environment and our health from climate change."