We must reimagine and redesign healthcare.

I want to increase accessibility for all people, especially those that currently go without seeing a doctor...

Home and community-based care is the future of healthcare delivery in this country.

How do we ensure equity and create policies that not only increase telehealth coverage when appropriate, but ensure that everyone has access to the technology?

I really do believe, since 80 percent of what we spend in healthcare is--are on 20 percent of the complex patients...

The expansion of telehealth has played a critical role in the access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But I can tell you first hand from practicing years in the emergency department and as a public health expert in emergencies that the number one driving factor here is systemic inequalities with access to the resources that these community…

I do, Lawrence. I`ve been administering tests in the hardest to reach communities, the farm workers and the homeless since the summer, really taking a community-based approach, working with free clinics, non-profits and other volunteer…

Look, we are so fortunate that we have a president that promotes equity, has an equity task force, has $25 billion in the rescue plan for these communities and focusing on sending vaccines into the retail pharmacies and their QHCs.

Prioritizing vaccinations for high-risk groups hardest hit by COVID-19 is not effective if these communities are not able to access the vaccine.

It is critical to make sure the public and providers have accurate information about the vaccine through community public education.

The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color is undisputed.

I will be reintroducing the Environmental Justice Act of 2021, which is with Senator Booker, with codify parts of that Executive order that you just mentioned, 12898.

If we talk about environmental equity, then it is precisely the environmental justice communities that we need to support.

President Biden's Executive order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad takes important steps towards strengthening our environmental justice and public health protections.

These early climate leadership actions from the President are encouraging, and I look forward to more to come.

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.

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.

So what we are doing now is just not working, and it is disproportionately harming underserved populations and communities of color.

Health disparities are symptoms of a failed healthcare system, and this pandemic has highlighted those inequities and failures.

Donald Trump is an immediate threat to our Constitution and to our Democracy. He must be removed. It has now been a week since rampaging criminals incited by Mr. Trump invaded and vandalized the Capitol--the heart of American Democracy and…

In terms of the third violation, which is the most outstanding and outrageous violation, it was that procedures were done without the women's informed consent. There were gynecological procedures, as was mentioned: total hysterectomy…

I recently received a letter from a constituent named Jeffrey. Jeffrey was laid off in March and hasn't been able to find work during the pandemic. He wrote to me and said: ``I have been scraping by on my savings and borrowing, and I am…

I want to thank the Judiciary Committee and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for organizing the trip to Irwin County Detention Center. I was one of those who went to witness firsthand what was going on. I want to thank Representative…