"What I would ask of the FBI is: Why? What is your reason for what has been termed a lackadaisical attitude?"
"I can make a huge killing making sure that we don't pay for anybody's healthcare."
"All right. Well, that is concerning."
"It generally can create a situation where it prioritizes the interest of the shareholders more than the actual consumers of the product, or even the employees of the company."
"Let's just say, hypothetically, I get a slew of hired-gun lobbyists to buy up Members of Congress to secure the largest tax cut in the history of the United States."
"But I also want to point out another fact: that hate also sometimes leads to policy, and policy sometimes reinforces that hate, as well as the rhetoric of our President."
"it seems that upon closer inspection he is actually gutting the very programs that are critical to combating the opioid epidemic."
"the President's budget is proposing $1.5 trillion in cuts to the Medicaid program over the next 10 years."
"I think we need to--people say 'opioid crisis' because that is what is killing so many people, but at its core, you are right, this is an addiction crisis, and we have to treat people as we find them."
"Our major threats in Houston are methamphetamine, cocaine, and synthetic drugs."
"I find it, the documents that were just submitted to the record, quite interesting from my colleague from Texas."