John Sarbanes

By definition, monopoly industries have unlimited resources to sustain the monopoly with political power.

I think it is three, actually.

Earning their trust back won't be easy, but we in Congress are determined to make sure the reality of life in America lives up to the promise of America.

This safety is not and should never be contingent upon where we live, the color of our skin, our income bracket, our party affiliation, or any other superficial differences that needlessly divide us.

It is a privilege to be able to visit her district and see firsthand, as we did this morning, how hard she has been working on behalf of the people of Detroit.

I think they were embarrassed, and they've got mortgages to pay, but we couldn't--my colleagues to just--

But because there is a transition happening to a different coverage, potentially involving different providers, involving a different set of benefits as to what is covered and what is not covered, the system will miss the opportunity to…

I mean, in fact, that is exactly the moment in time when someone's condition might change in a way where, if there was a continuous perspective because the coverage was lasting for a longer duration, that change would be captured in terms…

I am encouraged that this committee is continuing its efforts to understand and address underlying causes of our Nation's maternal mortality challenges.

The fact of the matter is the chemical industry has a tremendous amount of power, influence, resources.

It makes you wonder why the companies would hire these experts and scientists in the first place if they're not going to give their opinion the weight that it deserved.

I'd like you to speak a little bit to that, because I've seen in the record that you've already created, with the testimony that's been submitted, plenty of instances in which employees inside these companies were trying to raise the alarm.

I appreciate you being here.

Thank you all for your extremely powerful testimony.

Thank you very much for your testimony today. We are going to continue to urge EPA to regulate all of these chemicals including the emerging PFAS chemicals.

Outbreaks of scabies, shingles, and chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children and adults who were being held in cramped cells.

The teams also documented additional instances of noncompliance with applicable detention standards.

Do you agree--you must do--that holding young children in overcrowded detention cells for over two weeks violates both the Flores decision and the TEDS standards?

Obviously, we all know well the threat that fentanyl is posing to the health and safety of our communities.

Has the Trump Administration or congressional Republicans put forward any meaningful replacement plan for the ACA that would provide the same coverage gains and consumer protections?

I think it is clear from what the polls show that Americans don't want to throw away the ACA.

I don't know why my Republican colleagues think that it is a strong position to argue for taking this fundamental coverage away from millions of Americans.

We made a promise that we would do everything we could to try to deliver that coverage to them, and we did that with the Affordable Care Act.

What is not fair is to force some of the witnesses, who represent millions of patients across the country, to go back and fight the last war, and that is what the Trump Administration and Republicans here in Congress are doing.

The President, I think, must act to protect the integrity of the Federal work force to police that boundary that I've just spoken of.