Ro Khanna

The President has the executive authority to direct DEA, HHS, and FDA to consider administratively rescheduling marijuana.

It is clear that the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, alongside with other major pharma companies, are responsible for massive crimes on the American public and the harm that they have caused with the opioid epidemic.

We can and we must do better.

I think there's a higher bar where what you do really matters to shaping the culture of the Nation.

Thank you also to you, Representative Krishnamoorthi, Chairman Krishnamoorthi, for your leadership on these issues. I know you've been advocating and leading on these issues for a number of years just to have basic equality in all our…

The position, H.R. 8, all H.R. 8, at its core, said is that violent felons are still getting these guns, serial rapists are still getting these guns.

The right of the Second Amendment is not absolute, it is important to recognize that the right of the First Amendment is not absolute.

As she put it, what do we value more, children or our guns? It is really that simple.

This is a moral issue. He`s rallying the Western world.

I believe that President Biden is being responsible, as is President Macron, as is Italy, as is Germany, by saying, yes, we are going to stand fully, 100 percent with Ukraine.

Well, I think the president has handled the situation absolutely correctly. Look, we have provided $40 billion of aid to Ukraine. That's about ten times their original defense budget. They have brilliantly fought to resist Russia. It is…

You have a saying that FTX has, quote, 'no capital requirements for participants.' I think that is on its face a false statement.

I want to applaud you for that and applaud your commitment to that. I think that is the right thing to do as Americans.

I was a little bit surprised that he was criticizing you, Mr. MacLennan, for having a program to seek Black farmers.

We thank Rep. Gooden (TX-5) and Rep. Khanna for sponsoring this bill.

We support the $6,100,000 funding increase for CoFAR in fiscal year 2023.

I strongly support Bernie Sanders' Medicare plan, which is a very reasonable plan.

We could save about a trillion dollars a year for our country to do other useful things.

Private health care insurance is a crushing tax on working families in this country and on businesses.

The climate crisis and misguided forestry policies have given rise to catastrophic burning across our western forests.

I know it will make a big difference.

I want to thank our panelists for their remarks, and I want to commend my colleagues for participating in this important conversation.

Thank you. It looks like we have had the members who wish to ask questions.

I think we are unified in this Congress in making sure no Russian oil comes to the United States shores.

I look forward to the committee's continued efforts to make sure the logging industry understands that public land belongs to the public, today, tomorrow, and in the future, and the best way we can preserve it is to literally preserve it.