the Republican leadership prepares to bring Speaker McCarthy's what I consider irresponsible and extreme Default on America Act to the House floor.

I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on how these trends may be impacting healthcare affordability and access to coverage.

I hope my Republican colleagues will commit to work in a bipartisan manner as we consider these policies moving forward.

Republicans are moving to the Default on America Act without an open or transparent process.

Again, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill that, as I mentioned, unanimously passed out of the Energy and Commerce Committee last month. It is important. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to…

If Republicans succeed in cutting $100 billion from Medicaid, the consequences will be devastating.

This is a bipartisan bill that was reported out of our committee unanimously last month, and I would ask everyone to support the legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

This would create a national data privacy standard and stop unrestrained collection of personal information on consumers by both Big Tech and data brokers.

I just wanted to say, Chairman Griffith, that, you know, I just was--found it so interesting...

Breaching the digital divide has been a top priority of this committee for years, and in 2021 Democrats delivered on that promise with passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

some of the Republican proposals before us today are supposed solutions to problems that simply do not exist.

This law made historic investments in broadband that will help connect millions of Americans to high-speed, affordable, and reliable broadband regardless of income or ZIP Code.