"In March, I introduced H.R. 1897, the REACT Act, which would require the Department of Homeland Security to test all migrants coming across our borders who are released into the U.S."
"So essentially, what I am hearing as I am here is we are spending our time in a committee discussing an issue that, while it is very important, is only affecting a very small percentage of people and ..."
"And it is important for public health, national security, and also for how our media treats information and where it comes from, that we know the origins of COVID-19, which we still don't have."
"I think this is a critically important issue for National security and for public health."
"Every State is a border State."
"I do think that our response to this pandemic and future pandemics, in addition to supply chain manufacturing coming back to the United States, the origins of COVID-19, which seems to be an issue with..."
"I just personally, as a physician and as someone who was inside this process, really, myself, don't understand why we haven't had more of an update yet."
"I think it's important--and I'm in an agricultural state. We know what herd immunity is."
"It should've been ended earlier so that people could see there was another benefit to getting vaccinated."
"FEMA uses the phrase, locally-executed, State-managed, and Federally-supported."
"It is imperative that the United States counter the People's Republic of China's or the Chinese Communist Party's growing influence and ambitions as evidenced in its poor Silk Road efforts."
"President Biden promised not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year. But inflation... has increased dramatically."