"Is the--is the Health and Human Services Department taking any steps here in the United States to boost production of these supplies?"
"Then that should be in our bill then that we are working on that?"
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly appreciate this hearing. Very intrigued by what we are doing here today."
"I particularly appreciate this hearing because my own district, the District of Columbia, is regularly targeted by the minority for its laws regarding the LGBTQ community."
"RFRA has been used as a justification even recently--Senator Ted Cruz, here in the House, Representative Vicki Hartzler--for attacks on the District's human rights amendment."
"I hope, particularly the witnesses who can give us perspective on what we have got to do now in renewing the Voting Rights Act, can talk about their own role."
"My only regret is that our colleague, John Lewis, who, though not a member of this committee, would certainly be here today if he could."
"I just want to cite for the gentleman from Georgia the extraordinary number of voters in his state, half a million, who were purged."
"purges that result in a person having to leave the voting place and come again, it seems to me, ought to be disallowed under our bill"
"We know that some of that is true because Democrats took back this House last year."
"I want to take a moment to thank members of this subcommittee who have highlighted the critical needs of these programs."