The demand under the present circumstances that Mr. Pagliano again assert his constitutional rights in front of video cameras six weeks before the presidential election betrays a naked political agenda and furthers no valid legislative aim.

No employee in Federal civil service should ever feel afraid to come to work.

There must be some playbook that you all use. And they say: 'Oh, we've got an assistance program. We're going to help some people.' And the next thing you know they then use that to justify not bringing the prices down.

You are refusing to say how much profit your company makes. You are repeating industry talking points with no substance whatsoever.

I think I might be a little bit more trustful if I hadn't heard some of this before, if I hadn't read some of it before from people like Shkreli, who called us imbeciles.

And as you know, this issue of the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs has been one of my top priorities for several years.

I had a mother who has three children, and all of them use EpiPen. She has to have one set at home, and she has one at the school. And she stood there in tears, because she's only making maybe $50,000 a year or less, and she's trying to…

Will you agree today to produce all the documents the committee has requested so we can confirm what's going on here?

I think the American people have a right to know how much you and your fellow executives are making off of the exorbitant prices you're charging for this drug.

to me, that is a very, very sad thing because you have got a situation where literally people are left to get sicker and in many instances die early.

People are getting rich. They are charging these unreasonable prices.

Oh, believe me, I know. Martin Shkreli sat right in the seat that you are sitting in and thumbed his nose at us, called us imbeciles because we wanted to know why his company could raise the price of a pill from $13.50 to $750.

If there is fraud, we need to get to the bottom of it.

See, we are the United States of America, and this is about trying to make sure we take care of our own.

I want the American public to know that you have agreed to schedule a hearing on EpiPen.

We should hold this hearing in a closed session, like the chairman said he would in his letter.

It would have been helpful if you had laid that out from the beginning.

I just want to make sure that we don't create another situation where people are accusing us of violating the law.

It is fundamentally unfair and irresponsible to force these witnesses to answer questions about this issue in open session.

Well, here we are again, another day in the Oversight Committee, another emergency hearing about Hillary Clinton.

I guess this is what happens when you try to schedule a public attack against Hillary Clinton for every day of the week.

the chairman's abuse of his unilateral subpoena authority in order to tarnish the Democratic candidate for President.

The Republicans started with their discredited Benghazi investigation, accusing Secretary Clinton of all kinds of unsubstantiated conspiracies.

These actions had their desired effect. They kept repeating the headline that Hillary Clinton is under investigation.

This frantic pre-election fervor is an egregious abuse of taxpayer dollars for political purposes.