Nearly half of all wealth grown since 1986, as you well know, has gone to the top 1 percent of our households, while the top 1 percent controls 42 percent of the nation's wealth.

So, Ms. Porter, you know, I'm grateful for every one adult smoker that e-cigarettes are actually helping to quit nicotine, but for every one adult smoker that is being helped, 81 kids will be introduced to nicotine through e-cigarettes and…

Now, I'll get to Dr. Rizzo. So we have seen no evidence that e-cigarettes are useful for smoking cessation. In fact, dual use is significantly more prevalent. Is dual use safe?

To be effective, do you agree that the flavor ban needs to include mint and menthol?

The wealth held by the bottom 90 percent of Americans is rapidly shrinking.

I am heartened to see the bipartisan interest and commitment to address what is a fast-moving outbreak and am hopeful that we will show similar and equitable outrage when it comes to gun violence, which is also a public health crisis.

A new generation of young people are becoming addicted to nicotine through these kid-friendly flavors, and we have no idea, truly, the long-term impacts this will have.

Over the past 4 decades, wealth and income inequality has skyrocketed.

There is concern amongst the civil rights community, that any new counterism authorities or resources could be used against vulnerable groups when defining violent white supremacy as international terrorism.

What should Congress do to ensure that other counterterrorism agencies do not similarly and unjustly target minority communities?

I think first and foremost, the strategies that are being developed...needs to identify violent white supremacy as the current serious domestic threat that it is.