I am concerned about hospitals closing in my district and in similarly situated districts across the Nation.

I want to know about the dialysis centers and those patients who are on dialysis, not those patients who are looking for organ transplants.

Why are there so many dialysis centers in black neighborhoods?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. The Word of the Lord says in Psalm 116:15: ``Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.'' With that in mind, the people of the First Congressional District of Illinois have sent me…

But maybe I am old school.

I think that you're right on point, and there is a familiar saying--you might have heard it--that when the White community gets a cold, the Black community gets pneumonia, and I've found that to be relatively true.

I want to thank you, Madam Chairman, and to all the witnesses it's been a very informative hearing that we've had today.

I understand the whole issue about menthol-flavored cigarettes and how they have adversely affected the African-American community.

Gun violence, Madam Chairman, is indeed a national epidemic.

I should not have to be servicing a family of a 6-month-old girl.

I always say nothing stops a bullet like an opportunity.

I have introduced, as you have heard, H.R. 1114, legislation to require the Surgeon General... to submit an annual report on the impacts of gun violence on public health.