This pandemic's disproportionate impact on African American and Hispanic communities highlights the pressing need for a universal healthcare system that guarantees every American access to health care.

Like many of my colleagues on this panel, I believe that access to high-quality affordable healthcare is a basic human right, regardless of one's race or ethnic background.

I will also say expanding Medicaid is really critical.

It is unconscionable to me that my constituents who are African American and Hispanic are twice as likely to die from this virus than their White counterparts.

We have a unique moment in our nation's history to move forward truly transformational legislation, which will help communities of color access their basic human right to affordable, high-quality healthcare.

New York has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic. My constituents in New Rochelle, New York, were in the original New York hotspot and have suffered greatly, both health-wise and economically. I have worked tirelessly since the last…

Every day I hear from my constituents, including doctors and nurses serving on the frontlines of this pandemic about the dire shortages of personnel, protective equipment and therapeutics, PPEs as they call them.

This leaves the United States vulnerable in public health crises and obviously poses a national security threat the way I look at it.

I cannot think of much that is more dangerous than that.

the administration has failed at every turn. The President has sidelined our best scientists, pushed baseless conspiracy theories, and more recently prescribed unproven remedies, like Lysol, to suffering Americans.

I now yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).

Before I close, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moulton).

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I believe I have said about everything I can say on this issue, so I won't take up more time of Congress, other than to say we are not at…

It breaks my heart to see what the Syrian people have gone through.

Those efforts have really been a failure: a failure of American leadership, a failure of countries around the world.

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.Res. 809 from Representative Engel.

the shake-down of an ally in the middle of an ongoing national security crisis in the Korean Peninsula is absolutely crazy.

I think all of us understand it would cost us more money to bring those troops home than it does to keep them there.

I think this is because our Republican colleagues, even though most of them would agree with most of what I have just said, do not want to get into an argument with the mad king in the White House.

Support For Patients and Communities Act was an important step forward. It lacked the federal funding necessary to expand access to treatment.

In my home state of New York, opioids alone claimed 3,000 lives in 2017.

This epidemic also disproportionately affects communities of color, which face additional barriers and challenges in accessing treatment.

Our Nation is in the middle of a youth tobacco epidemic driven by the increasing popularity of flavored e- cigarettes. In my home State of New York, youth e-cigarette use rose by 160 percent between 2014 and 2018. I want to commend…

I am calling on Congress to repeal the T-Band mandate. I am hoping that Congress can resolve this matter without delay.

The House has taken bold, decisive action to lower drug prices through H.R. 3, which provides a commonsense solution to this crisis by allowing the government to negotiate drug prices.