Elijah Cummings

I fully support Mr. Carter in his efforts, because I have a lot of people in my district that are very, very concerned about that issue.

It would be legislative malpractice for me not to.

You could use that attention to come clean, to right your wrongs, and to become one of the most effective patient advocates in the country.

I want to ask you to--no, I want to plead with you to use any remaining influence you have over your former company to press them to lower the price of these drugs.

I completely support your decision to bring Mr. Shkreli to make sure that he asserted his Fifth Amendment right before this committee.

I have literally been inundated with letters from families, hospitals, and patient groups begging--not asking, begging--for relief from these astronomical price increases.

I have introduced the Prescription Drug Affordability Act with Senator Bernie Sanders.

Hardworking American families should not be forced to pay increases of 10 percent, 100 percent, or 1,000 percent, just to subsidize the lavish lifestyles of hedge fund managers and corporate executives.

The issue has been my number one--number one--investigative priority for several years.

From the depths of my heart, I thank you again and again for holding this hearing.

This is something that even Donald Trump supports.

You are raising the price, all right?

Somebody is going to pay. Somebody has got to pay.

People's lives are at stake, because of the price increases you imposed and the access problems that have been created.

I hope today's hearing is the beginning of a sustained effort to address this issue in a bipartisan way.

If I'm being poisoned and I can't wash with the water. I can't drink the water, and then you are going to make me pay for the water? I mean, that doesn't make any sense.

EPA had the chance because of Miguel Del Toral to be the hero here, and Ms. Hedman snatched defeat for EPA from the jaws of victory.

100 percent of the responsibility lies with these employees at MDEQ; there's no question.

I want everybody who is responsible for this fiasco to be held accountable.

Governor Snyder's account of events leading to this water crisis are completely wrong.

Nobody on these panels, either side, would tolerate that.

We will get to the bottom of this. And, as Mr. Walberg said, we will do it in a bipartisan way.

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see.

This is not a political issue, this is a moral issue.

And so we do not know the full extent of the damage that was caused, but we know it is grave.