We certainly have a responsibility here to help our public health surveillance systems modernize.

The Biden administration has put us back on the right course, and is committed to putting the welfare of these children first.

To be clear, the Biden administration did not cause this surge. There are long-standing, structural root-causes for these migration trends.

Unlike the previous administration, the Biden administration is, once again, implementing policies that are in the best interest of the vulnerable children in its care.

If not enough people get vaccinated, the massive investments that we have made to develop the vaccines and the extraordinary efforts that we have made to make them widely available will never reach their full potential.

this completes the questioning from members of the subcommittee, but we are always happy to welcome members of the full committee

I think it is very important that we find a--that we investigate where--particularly, if the virus escaped from some lab, because that, of course, has implications for international health.

Thanks to the millions of Americans who have chosen to get a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine, we now have a shot at returning to normalcy.

I just want to say how anybody watching this should recognize that, in a strong bipartisan way, the leadership of this committee... is bipartisan in their strong urging of all Americans to get the vaccine.

The facts are not in dispute. The only question is, how can we help unvaccinated Americans get their shots?

I was pleased, Dr. McLain, to hear you say that the Agency is developing the PFAS drinking water standard for submission later this year, because it has been stalled for some time.

I am sure you believe that, too, since you are the Secretary of Energy.

It was unclear to regional staff, who are the ones who carry out the work, what the Agency's goals and objectives were.

We have some right in my congressional district in Denver.

I think all of us agree, including, apparently, the Republicans' witness, that polluters should have to pay to clean up the sites.

I think it is really important, as we have these discussions, that we not conflate all of our different environmental remediation laws.

if you are Type 1 diabetic and you take insulin, if you don't get your insulin, you die.

this really is a national crisis, as we keep hearing, and it is not going to be getting any better.

I have had so many people tell me they were working four jobs to get their insulin.

What good is having amazing drugs if many of my constituents can never afford them?

prices for the most commonly prescribed insulins went up from $20 to over $200--$250--a vial, which is more than a 700 percent increase.

Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any other nation in the world.

I was absolutely thrilled to see your request for $936 million towards a new accelerating environmental and economic justice initiative.

What I really can't understand is how not either of their witnesses or one of the Members is willing to talk about how we address cleanup of these environmental justice areas.

Would you agree that underenforcement of environmental laws is a classic example of an environmental--of environmental injustice?