I was the lead cosponsor of similar legislation in 2013 with Representative Pitts that addressed some of the same concerns with doping and horseracing.

What do you call a country that institutionalizes child abuse? Tragically, today you call that country the United States of America. We have heard the children screaming. We have seen the images of children being told to go to sleep in…

The silence by so many Republican Members of Congress in light of so many misguided, asinine, and un-American decisions by this administration is both shameful and telling.

Ripping young children away from their parents in order to extort money for a wall is both evil and inhumane.

We need to examine how many of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents and forced into custody of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Settlement.

I believe that time and our Nation would be better served by speaking up and speaking out against the Trump administration's mean-spirited, racist, and immoral new policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.

Now is the time for Congress to grow a spine and reclaim our constitutional duty as an equal and separate branch of Government ready and willing and able to serve as a check to a President who has seemingly gone mad.

In the United States, somewhere between 20 and 50 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions in hospitals are either unnecessary or inappropriate.

I'm particularly concerned about the improper and overuse of antibiotics that's driving the growth of antibiotic resistance around the world.

Thank you. My time is up, but I hope that in addition to development, that we're looking at prevention here as well.

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I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 262. personal explanation