Democrats have expanded negotiating for the best price for prescription drugs and Medicare. Again, Republicans opposed that.

President Biden and House Democrats passed the biggest prescription drug reform in decades in the Inflation Reduction Act that was brought up multiple times today, and every, by the way, single Republican voted against it.

And Big Pharma, as we have heard today and have heard in their former public statements, are suing to overturn that, which is quite shameful, honestly.

Now, today we're also, unfortunately, enabling extremists who claim that masks are child abuse and that vaccines don't work.

Now, over 20 Republican-led State legislatures have criminalized health care for LGBTQ+ people, forcing families to travel hundreds of miles and even flee their communities to access lifesaving medically recommended care.

I want to thank you, Dr. Shane, for being part of the medical community that actually worked to save lives, not to try to cause disinformation that actually got people killed during the pandemic.

Now, we know that abortion bans have deprived women in 22 States of access to abortion and criminalized doctors seeking to provide the highest quality care to their patients.

I just do want to start just by pushing back against some of the Republican claims and some from my colleagues that these abortion bans that are completely extreme and out of step are outside the scope of this hearing.

As a committee, we should be coming together to protect public health and fighting to make medical care more accessible for all Americans, but instead, House Republicans are working to undermine the doctor-patient relationship.

It's really unfortunate that we continue to push vaccine hesitancy not just in this committee but across the country.

And I know this because I, myself, am part of the community.

This idea that we are somehow going to invade northern Mexico... is completely crazy.