Cures provides the NIH and the FDA with billions of dollars in much-needed resources so that our nation's best and brightest can work on finding cures for diseases that impact every single family.

This hearing is a great thing for many reasons. Most notably, it's a reminder of how Republicans and Democrats came together to get a monumental piece of legislation signed into law despite our divided times.

Tennessee received an 'A' on its report card in the Protected Innocence Challenge.

While most of us spent this past holiday weekend with family and friends, victims of human trafficking and their families were forced to live a waking nightmare.

According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, human trafficking cases increased by more than a third between 2015 and 2016.

I look forward to hearing her testimony about her efforts to find an effective approach to attack this problem we are all facing.

This simply should not be happening in this day and age.

So much of our lives today is linked to what we do online and companies in virtually every sector of the economy collect vast amounts of personal data about consumers.

It's also unacceptable to the American people because when companies fail to protect consumer data consumers pay the price, sometimes years after a breach.

We need to figure out how to wrest power over information from corporations and return it back to the people.

The net neutrality rules that he plans to destroy are the protections that ensure that we the people can decide for ourselves what we do and say online.

Chairman Pai's plan will fundamentally change the free and open internet as we know it.