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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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…