Families are struggling with the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs and healthcare costs, costs which continue to far outpace people's wages today.

The Trump administration is making intentional policy choices to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

A study out this week found that 15,600 deaths would have been prevented if all states expanded Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act as intended.

I regard this as sabotage of the Affordable Care Act.

We still have to be vigilant and ensure that this important benefit remains available to our most vulnerable citizens.

I urge you to consider Medicare for America.

I am pleased to report that the language was successfully added to the Fiscal Year 2020 Labor-HHS Appropriations bill.

It is our proposal, to achieve affordable, quality universal healthcare.

I think we should have a robust and lengthy hearing.

One-third of Americans have delayed care due to cost, and that's according to Gallup.

I want to urge again the CDC to continue its vital laboratory research and investigatory efforts.

We need to take a hard look most recently at the rule that was approved by the USDA in dealing with lessening the inspection force in our--on swine slaughter and also with line of speed.

We need clarity on Carrizo Springs.

Make no mistake, however, that it is administration policies that have brought us to the brink, a crisis created by failed administration policies.

We do not have an environment and that's not everyone. That's not everyone.

I was the first Member of Congress to put funding into that system, because I understood what it did.

I believe it is twisted and it is shameful.

This was a policy decision by ORR.

Why are Federal facilities exempt?

The administration initiated a zero-tolerance policy, which, as a result, separated children from parents, adding to the numbers of unaccompanied children.

There are separations.

The fact that we are here again today is a clear example of how damaging and cruel the Trump administration's actions have been on the mental health of vulnerable children.

Frankly, in my view, that delay compounded--that delay by Congress compounded the crisis at the border and made things worse, not better.

Rescind the memorandum of agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services.

People should not be dying.