the more time we waste, the more lives that we are losing.

Gilead, you have used your power to manipulate our patent systems, monopolized the marketplace to line your shareholders' pockets, and I think that is shameful.

This is not about the vilifying of profit. This is about the vilifying of choosing profit over people.

So while borrowers are struggling to make ends meet, the agency tasked with their protection is busy gifting predatory lenders $8 billion a year.

The American people have invented a way to end the HIV epidemic, and that we should be very proud of.

There isn't a country in this world where this type of greed and conduct will be tolerated.

Now, many would argue that the primary impact is to hurt consumers, but I guess you're right, that the flip side of that is to line lenders' pockets.

I was fortunate enough to discuss this issue before the House Financial Services Committee just last month and to express my concerns regarding the perpetual debt trap that these products leave and create for some of our most vulnerable…

It has been 40 years since the first HIV case in the U.S., and this disease still remains a global public health challenge.

And at a time when Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police, a document like the FBI's intelligence assessment is not just misleading, it is reckless and dangerous.

There is not a single doubt in my mind that the growing number of hate crimes taking place in this country are a byproduct of the hateful rhetoric being spewed regularly by the current occupant of our White House.

At a time when Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police, a document like the FBI's intelligence assessment is not just misleading, it is reckless and dangerous.