I'm very concerned about this decline in confidence we see in the public when it comes to the COVID vaccine.

Trust of the vaccine will be as important, if not more so, than the safety and efficacy.

if you're fighting with the public health experts, you're politicizing this, and if you're allying yourself with them, then you're depoliticizing it.

But nevertheless, I don't think it is fair to try to push the blame off particularly onto the PBMs. It is the pharmaceutical companies.

That's not a good situation to be in. That's very alarming as we're trying to tackle this pandemic.

I wanted to just take a moment to address an argument that we heard articulated today by these companies, which is that the pharmacy benefit managers are the ones responsible for these rising drug prices.

The attack that is coming with the Supreme Court case in November... is just the latest play out of that playbook.

We have seen the Trump administration... engage in leadership malpractice when it comes to responding to the pandemic.

This has been an obsession with the Republicans for more than ten years.

Can you imagine if the President of the United States in the midst of this crisis had led with all of the efforts that you just described at the national level?

Let's call a spade a spade when it comes to the Republican attacks on the ACA.

that assertion is patently absurd.

Yes, sir, we will deploy processes and procedures that advance any election mail in some cases ahead of first-class mail.

Can you commit today to the immediate issuance of a formal USPS policy in writing that will guarantee all delivery of election mail is treated at first class or better for the 2020 general election?

We have a President freely admitting that he is opposed to USPS funding because he's hoping that a hobbled Postal Service won't be able to handle mail ballots.

Could you commit as well today that you'll give us some data-specific updates on how the efforts regarding the mailed ballots are going?

We need written policies and directives, not just words.

I'd appreciate that.

I'll be candid, I don't trust you right now. I don't know whether it's I don't trust your judgment, or I don't trust your motives.

I thank the chairwoman of the committee for yielding. I support this bill strongly. I want to speak a little bit to what the Postmaster General acknowledged--admitted--yesterday. He called it a dip in service. He finally admitted that…

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can you hear me?

And climate change is increasing that trend.

I was proud to sponsor, with a number of my colleagues, the TREES Act, which would plant trees in low-income communities and increase the tree canopy in areas that have historically lacked green space.

Many people have opined already that the president's memorandum is unlawful and unconstitutional.

I don't want to belabor what the president has done because it is very clear... that what the president has proposed most recently is not only unconstitutional, it is completely unworkable.