Rashida Tlaib

I have seen the economic instability it is causing for our residents and communities.

I do want to thank, also, our incredible colleague, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, for traveling all the way from Texas to come here.

Which we all know is a very challenged district, as the third-poorest congressional district in the country, but also with the most resilient people.

I want to thank you so much, Chairman Green, and, of course, our incredible Financial Services Committee Chairwoman, Maxine Waters, for agreeing to bring Congress to Detroit.

That means there's a will. They're waiting for us to tell them to stop.

You're allowing people to die on your health insurance.

I want to apologize. I've only been here seven months, but not on my watch will I not be able to humanize the impact and push back against corporate greed.

There's a lack of urgency, right? There's lack of urgency.

Insulin prevents death.

We’ve allowed corporate greed to come before the people.

Continue to be bold. Continue to ask for more.

You’re allowing people to die on your health insurance.

There's a lack of urgency.

Big Tobacco bought you out and folded a main competitor, with the third-largest market share, furthering your dominance of this industry.

But why would JUUL tell employers and insurers about supposed health benefits of JUUL?

If you say that your products help people quit cigarettes, the FDA would regulate you.

You targeted children to do that too.

JUUL isn't just owned by Big Tobacco, it is Big Tobacco today.

JUUL has 76 percent share of the e-cigarette market. Only a handful of competitors even have a one percent share.

We are dealing with a product that is more addictive than any product we have marketed to kids in decades.

Influencers are a new tool for Big Tobacco companies like JUUL.

Of course not. Mr. Chairman, if I may, let's just be clear. One model found that every one adult that successfully switched--switched--cigarettes to e-cigarettes to eventually non-use of any nicotine product, 81 adolescent teens, like my…

But JUUL has avoided explicitly calling itself a cessation device, which JUUL believes helps it avoid this particular FDA regulation.

If you say you don't know something, but you actually do, it is the same thing as a lie.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, for doing this hearing and for your leadership on this issue.