I want to thank you for this hearing today, emphasizing, I think, in many respects how different the Biden administration approach is going to be from the last administration in important ways.

Thanks very much. You know, when we look at environmental justice in the context of climate action...

I want to thank our witnesses today. This has been an exhaustive and long session, but I think you covered really important dimensions of the crisis that we are facing, particularly this vaccine distribution challenge.

This beautiful Capitol dome is a symbol of freedom and democracy, not just for Americans but for people the world over. The action we take today, this impeachment, is a declaration to the world that when there is an attack on our…

We've heard plenty of testimony today about the timeline here that in 2007, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to illegally misbranding OxyContin in this effort to mislead doctors and patients about the drug's risk of addiction.

He was a workhorse, not a show horse. He put his head down. He just wanted to help people.

The reality is that it is the career work force that is the engine room of our government.

I thank the majority leader for yielding. I thank you for your friendship with my father, Paul Sarbanes, for so many years. You go back with him a long way, and he cherished that friendship, as he did the relationship with all the members…

the Census is about giving every person in this country the opportunity to stand up and to be counted

the accuracy and transparency and integrity of this process be protected

We want very much for there to be more transparency.

the Nation deserves publicly available indicators to assess the credibility of the final counts.

the IRS is funded in a way that it can do its job and do its job on behalf of that broad set of Americans.

When the IRS doesn't have enough resources, the fact of the matter is that the rich get richer, high-end tax cheats get away with not paying their taxes.

Those average Americans out there who play by the rules... they're the ones that are getting short shrift here.

the IRS is enforcing the laws, we're going to be at risk of losing people continuing to voluntarily comply.

So, we have to get more resources to the IRS, and that has to be a number-one priority for Congress.

It is a program called the Baltimore Shines program. It helps increase access to solar energy by installing solar panels in underserved communities.

Honestly, sometimes the immense benefits of solar can seem too good to be true in some of the communities that, frankly, have been targeted for scams, low income communities and communities of color, have been exploited and are often on…

Why is it, in a free market economy, in the United States of America, you can't negotiate on behalf of 45 million Medicare beneficiaries for better drug prices?

This is common-sense legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers for lower prices.

You better anticipate that that is coming, because the American public is fit to be tied about the high prices of prescription drugs.

Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans have stood in the way of this.

I think it is a response to the scrutiny that you are under, so it is nice to talk about that...

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