We need to move faster. We need to take action. It is now a month since the Secretary said we were going to move forward on the flavors. Nothing has happened as of yet.

Let's rescind the rest of it, and let's get these children with good standards of care.

So my priority is to responsibly shut down Homestead to eliminate the use of facilities that are not State-licensed.

Influx facilities are supposed to be temporary.

There should be an interagency task force, not just a CDC task force.

We have got to do better.

Well, I hope so, but we are going to proceed to make sure it does.

But if you just focus on this as a THC crisis, it is an enormous mistake.

Children have no freedom of movement.

that is one of the reasons why we have put in the $100,000,000 because we found--and this turned up.

there are insufficient numbers of caseworkers working in all of these influx facilities.

So rest assured, the administration's attempt to slash your budgets will not stand.

We tried in the 2019 Labor-HHS bill to say that siblings could not be separated, but they are separated.

The non-fingerprinting is what is allowed. That could have been implemented many, many months before.

One Juul pod has as much nicotine as one pack of cigarettes.

It is crystal clear that President Trump doesn't really understand the nature of this committee and how bipartisan it is and has no regard for the National Institutes of Health and the cutting-edge work you do to save lives, advance cures…

Facilities this large warehousing this many children cannot do right by the kids.

It is everywhere. Everyone is vaping.

The CDC has, I think, routinely warned of the health risks.

This has been a signature issue of yours, you know, for a very, very long time, and one that is near and dear to your heart.

We know that the increased numbers of young people vaping have really created a public crisis.

We cannot allow systematic Government-sanctioned child abuse on our watch.

Such action is necessary because, clearly, industry self-regulation is not working.

The dramatic use of these products among youth, which is an epidemic, is alarming.

I would say there is no evidence, and I would say that even if you like these flavors, I would--you don't do that on the backs of youth.