"Of course, willful ignorance of climate change is not a laughing matter."
"Just a little bit of prevention would go such a long way towards cost savings."
"I was one of the first Members of Congress to sign on to the Green New Deal as a signal to what a priority it must be for America to lead the world in addressing climate change."
"We have already broken our climate; we don't need to break our economy to fix it."
"As Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Health Subcommittee, I have been particularly focused on the high cost of prescription drugs."
"This is a bill sponsored by most House Democrats. It offers a unique American solution to a unique American problem that we are having to pay about the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere i..."
"And I challenged them on many occasions. I remember sitting in the Rules Committee one day testifying. I said, you know, there is a reason you don't have an alternative to the Affordable Health Care. ..."
"Actually, the insurance part of it was a Republican idea, that we embraced, that they opposed."
"However, they neglected to mention the report's findings that I find most interesting. The authors of the Mercatus report said that national health spending would be 4 percent lower in 2031 under a si..."
"Can you imagine how that would be possible?"
"Would any system that Republicans have devised be better off for people with preexisting conditions than a Medicare for All system would be?"
"So he also made the point that people under a Medicare for All system might not have access to the latest technologies and innovations."