Rob Garcia

Some governments and especially U.S. adversaries choose to co-opt religion to support violent aggression against their rivals.

We know that our workers should be treated fairly. They should be paid appropriately, like the professionals they are.

None of our intelligence agencies have been able to make a determination with complete certainty about the lab leak theory or the theory that COVID was a natural spillover from animals.

Democrats in Congress and President Biden agree with you.

We could actually vote to advance some of that funding.

Inaction really is not an option.

My Democratic colleagues have done a great job of showing that there is absolutely zero evidence linking President Joe Biden to any wrongdoing. Zero. None.

This hearing is a complete waste of time, 2 days before a MAGA government shut down.

We are back to falling on MAGA conspiracy theories that Rudy Giuliani parroted over and over again.

Is it true that in 2019 refugees contributed $25 billion in taxes, an additional $68 billion in spending power? Isn't that correct?

The fact is that people who immigrate to this country are deeply grateful.

I believe this is now hearing number 11 on the border.

I support fair immigration processes that really support human beings as people.

Let's remind everyone that the largest and most recognizable American companies were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants.

We're not only a Nation of immigrants, but also a Nation built on the idea of the American Dream.

It has been noted multiple times that PBMs control almost 80 percent of the entire market, which is enormous.

We know that last year, the three major PBMs, which I just mentioned, here in the U.S. made almost $30 billion in profits.

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.

if we are going to have actually reform here within this incredibly important part of the kind of American economy and people's healthcare, that reform is going to happen on both sides.

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.

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

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.