So green light for hush money. I can do all sorts of terrible things. It's totally legal right now for me to pay people off.

So I can be totally funded by oil and gas. I can be totally funded by Big Pharma, come in, write Big Pharma laws, and there's no limits to that whatsoever?

So I'm being held and every person in the body is being held to a higher ethical standard than the President of the United States?

And it's already super legal, as we have seen, for me to be a pretty bad guy. So it's even easier for the President of the United States to be one, I would assume?

I think that this is an opportunity and it is a window for change it is a moment where we can come together and really talk about our values, that we are a nation that embraces immigrants, we are a nation that that believes in justice and…

I think that, you know, for me, what I see is that as a representative and as a congresswoman, it's -- I'm going in there to definitely listen what to what the president has to say.

2019 is the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote and I think that we're all coming here -- there's so much more that we have to fight for from wage equality, to paycheck fairness, to protecting ourselves and believing survivors.

I do think that there was some proper made on criminal justice reform and in, you know, in the last couple of months and I'm open to that.

So you would say, and am I correct in saying, that the VA is using collective bargaining power in the market to lower the price of drugs as a counter to some of the for-profit or profit motive pressures, upward pressures from the cost of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all as our panelists here for lending your expertise and your insight to help us better legislate, and especially thank you to Dr. Georges as a professor at Lehman College for representing the Bronx…

So the public is acting as early investor, putting tons of money into the development of drugs that then become privatized, and then they receive no return on the investment that they have made?