Jamie Raskin

The dangerously high price of prescription drugs is a serious social problem that we have long sought to address.

The investigation found that drug companies aggressively raise prices to meet revenue targets, that drug companies targeted the U.S. market for higher prices than are set in other countries, and that drug companies were engaged in…

Thank you kindly, Mr. Chairman.

The Committee's focus on the problem of the PBMs is an important bipartisan step forward in addressing the overall crisis of healthcare in the country.

The idea that you, as the oncologist, would prescribe a specific drug for your patient and then be forced to use a different drug, that does not work when obviously you are an expert in the field and you have someone presumably who is a…

The three major PBMs have also each been vertically integrated into the large health insurance corporations.

So, OK, you are saying you do not have the statutory authority to deploy them to protect the mail routes and letter carriers.

It seems to me that it is a little counterintuitive if the officers are assigned just to the physical station.

That just seems baffling to me.

The Postal Service's proposal focuses on hardening physical infrastructure, which is, of course, helpful in terms of preventing mail theft.

The problem is getting more serious.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for calling this important hearing.

Statehood is an imperative of basic democratic values, but also of governmental efficiency.

I have only been here for five months, but I have seen House Democrats sponsor numerous gun reform and gun violence legislation.

The rate of gun deaths in Mississippi is over 30 percent higher than it is in D.C.

It is also telling that Republicans are choosing to target Washington, DC, even though many places across the country are dealing with much higher crime than the District.

D.C. residents are Americans who deserve the same rights to Federal representation that each of our constituents have across the country.

If D.C. were to become a state, the Governor, the new executive of the state, would have control over the National Guard.

You did not hesitate to voluntarily deploy the Metropolitan Police Department to help us out.

You sent hundreds of officers who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Capitol Police, and we know many of them were injured in the process.

Thank you for immediately deploying the Metropolitan Police Department on January 6, 2021, to come and defend us against the violent insurrection that took place.

They are part of an effort to deny Americans who live in Washington the right to participate in representative government.

You see, he thinks it is her fault that he sexually abused her.

You see, that is what Pence gets for not doing what he was told by Donald Trump.

Instead, we have gathered today to hold a second hearing to micromanage the local affairs of Washington, DC.