QFR: from Rep. Raskin.

Thank you very much.

Alabama may soon have a law which would compel a 15-year-old girl who has been raped by her stepfather to bring the pregnancy to term.

Census 2020 is going to be a monumental undertaking and there are no do-overs.

Thank you very much for that powerful closing statement.

The power does rest with the people, and we are going to show--that is what our mission should be--everybody in this room, everybody that is listening to our voice, everybody that is watching television, everybody in this city and in this…

you are violating somebody's civil liberties in the most fundamental way

I want to thank you for calling this extremely important hearing.

That is dangerous. That is positively dangerous.

China, seems to me, to be the dystopian path that needs not be taken at this point by our society.

I want to introduce a front-page article from today's Washington Post, 'Despite National Security Concerns, GOP Leader McCarthy Blocked Bipartisan Bid to Limit China's Role in U.S. Transit System.'

John Adams once said that 'representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty.'

I am still trying to get over the AT&T v. Concepcion case, and I just want to re-live the gruesome details of this case.

Can we impute the policy positions that Members of the Committee take to campaign contributions?

I applaud Congressman Johnson for his leadership on this legislation.

The Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion was raised during the hearing by Representative Raskin.

So now we have a situation where, if the businesses really love arbitration, they can have both kinds. They can have individual, and they can have class-wide, but they went to court to sue against California's law to get it struck down.

Arbitration has become a tool to cover up a company's dirty laundry.

I want to strike a bipartisan note and invoke a Republican President who made America truly great, Abraham Lincoln, who served in this body and spoke of government of the people, by the people, and for the people--all the people. In 1964…

I think it's very important that you consider the access question.

So while we can't imagine this is some kind of Ayn Rand fantasy where the private sector did it all on its own, right?

Did you use those same political factors in setting the price for Truvada?

I think what we are trying to figure out is precisely what are the various public and private ingredients that go into our pharmaceutical system.

do you think it is inappropriate in a constitutional democracy where the public invests in scientific and medical research...

Okay. And you are choosing now to donate some drugs rather than reduce drug prices.