Cori Bush

I personally believe that if you have a public entity that does not have a profit motive, like Medicare, negotiate these prices with the manufacturers.

When congressional Democrats and the Biden Administration worked to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, we capped the price of insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and empowered Medicare to directly negotiate lower prices for drugs.

I think at the core of what we are talking about is an extreme out-of-control profit motive that has virtually no guardrails.

Leaving life or death medical decisions in the hands of drug manufacturers and multibillion dollar PBMs instead of patients and their healthcare providers is literally killing people.

We rise to convene today's hearing to support the Biden Administration's critical actions to combat climate change.

access to clean air is a human right.

my Republican colleagues have once again shown that they are unable or unwilling to hold a serious conversation on climate change.

The negative effects of polluted air are disproportionately severe on Black, Brown, and indigenous communities.

Reducing emissions from the transportation sector is critical as transportation is now the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

We have only a brief window to act to prevent the most severe consequences of climate change.

We cannot continue to take these hearings serious when we are talking about crime if we are not going to talk about gun violence.

We, in Congress, have the obligation to finally extend statehood to the residents of D.C.

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

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

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

D.C. went from being a single-digit ghost gun area to now having 461 ghost guns recovered in 2022.

Doesn't women's health warrant even a single hearing under these crisis conditions?

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

Watching parents continue to bury their children because they sent them to school... is despicable.

congressional interference in D.C.'s local affairs and the denial of statehood have very real consequences for D.C. residents.

D.C.'s lack of statehood has real financial consequences as well.

the United States is the only democracy... that denies the residents of its capital voting representation in the national legislature.

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

And yet we are not doing anything to stop mentally ill people from being able to buy AR-15s and unlimited ammunition in this country.

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.