Chicago residents that are most impacted by lead service lines are often in communities of color.

most of our cities and municipalities cannot afford to take out loans.

I am very worried. You know, we have right now vaccines and therapeutics that are affordable because we are doing that during what we call the COVID crisis, but after that, for the long COVID, are people going to be able to afford it?

I am very worried about this and Big Pharma's proclivity to profit on what is happening right now.

I really appreciated that when Dr. Fauci got his vaccine, he called it the NIH vaccine, underscoring what we do together as a country to support your wonderful work.

I believe that the FTC should have greater authority to go after scammers.

Putting consumers first is something we should all be able to agree on.

The Supreme Court has essentially invited us to fix this, so we are here today to right this wrong.

Today, this subcommittee acts urgently to ensure the Federal Trade Commission can put money back in the pockets of consumers who have been the victims of fraud or scams.

the author of the legislation that, in most people's view, it seems, would address the problem of getting money back in people's pockets.

Today the subcommittee acts urgently to ensure that the Federal Trade Commission can put money back into the pockets of consumers who have been victims of fraud or scams.

The Supreme Court's decision put a neon welcome sign out for fraudsters to target consumers.

Really only criminals and scammers benefit from this decision, while consumers are the losers.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just want to express my incredible gratitude, first of all, to Congresswoman Judy Chu for her tireless leadership on this issue, and to the Muslim community in my district for their tireless work and…

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I just wanted to say how important it is, and this hearing in general, and bringing it home, bringing it home to our families.

Every American family really does deserve to know whether the water that they use to cook and bathe and drink is safe.

I introduced the SHARED Act... to require testing of water sources near hydraulic fracturing operations.

Facebook was very much involved, and Zuckerberg admitted to it, or Facebook did a couple of years ago, for the genocide that took place in Myanmar, of the Rohingya people.

the day of software regulation is really entered, and that now it is time for us to regulate and that we intend to, that we’re going to regulate, we’re going to legislate, and they are going to be held accountable for what’s on -- what’s…

when they are making money, and they are hand over fist making plenty of money, that they have to be accountable for the messaging that they are putting out there.

Many companies have used Section 230 as a shield to escape consumer protection laws.

Disinformation like 'Plandemic' made people skeptical of the need for vaccines and almost certainly cost--contributed to the horrible loss of life during the pandemic.

Will you admit today that Facebook groups, in particular, played a role in fomenting the extremism that we saw and that led to the Capitol siege?