I think it was Ms. Turner who said we shouldn't just blow the whole system up.

So what we are looking for is a system that is going to serve all Americans.

even Americans who have insurance today are facing spiraling costs, and that a Medicare for All system will enable us to lower drug prices

The other industrialized countries on earth have arrived at national healthcare plans, the kind that has proven so elusive for us.

But I want to ask you a tough question about the transition from the Affordable Care Act to one that covers everybody.

It was a giant step forward.

A Medicare for All system will liberate small business in America from the obligation of trying to figure out what is the best healthcare plan for their workers.

Well, sometimes people think Medicare for All is just for the 30 million people who have no health insurance.

thank you for calling this historic hearing, which is a breakthrough in the national dialogue about healthcare

We have a big problem when we have 30 million people uninsured, so it reduces their overall productivity as well.

Now, is it going to be possible for us to move from the Affordable Care Act, with its limitations, to a Medicare for All system?

Most small businesses hate it, because they are not in the healthcare business, right?

They voted dozens of times to try to destroy it and not replace it, but destroy it and leave nothing there.

They wanted to take that system down.

We are in a civilizational emergency.

We have actually had decades of scientific consensus about the anthropogenic causes and the dangerous dynamics of climate change.

If 97 percent of the scientists told you not to drink the water in the Cannon House Office Building because it is not potable...

So far from watering the resolution down, we strengthened that resolution. We made it a powerful statement of the values of this institution.

We have also had a bipartisan political consensus endorsing the scientific consensus that has suddenly been ripped apart.

I mean, it seems to me like midnight would be a reasonable time to go.

Obviously, the expansion of marriage to include all of our citizens didn't undermine marriage at all.

I want to salute my colleague David Cicilline for his really passionate advocacy and stewardship of this legislation.

The H.R. 5 is going to help improve outcomes for more than 437,000 children and young people in the child welfare system.

Sometimes when you are in the middle of the trees, you lose sight of the forest. So I want to make sure we remark upon what a great and historic day this is, that we are taking up the Equality Act.

I must say, Mr. Chairman, I am quite astounded by this line of argumentation today by our colleagues.