The fact is, some recent changes have made the situation worse.

The first is a tax credit for hiring, first, an employee--an incentive to hire that person.

The IRS needs to meet a higher standard of confidentiality due to its history and the sensitive nature of taxpayer information.

I want to thank Senator Crapo, because he has indicated that telehealth could be one of the real bipartisan priorities for the committee.

There is a lot of work to be done at HHS; vaccinations are way up, but cases and deaths are still awfully high.

My bottom line: these are two individuals who are extraordinarily qualified for these essential positions and would be ready to go on Day 1 after they are confirmed by the Senate.

when big pharma is price-gouging, they are going to lose subsidies.

I have said that every single time this committee talks about Federal health programs, we are going to be talking about updating the guarantee of Medicare.

I think we know why this is such an acutely important issue to millions of people; they just feel like they are getting mugged at the pharmacy counter.

I want you to know that what I am in favor of is a policy that has Medicare negotiate on behalf of the more than 60 million Medicare beneficiaries in order to get them a better deal.

It is outrageous, I say to our nominees and colleagues, that in affluent white suburbs there are all kinds of health-care services of the most sophisticated nature, and in so many communities of color, it is like a health-care desert, and…

I think it is going to be important to make sure that right now, as a result of the pandemic, we have removed some of the roadblocks for people to actually get to a telehealth provider.

I mean, insulin prices went up 12-fold in a period of time that was not very long; the drug is not 12 times better. I mean, it is just plain old price gouging.

Bottom line, these are both highly qualified nominees who will be ready to go on Day 1 after they're confirmed by the Senate.

The child welfare system is rife with racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities.

There's a lot of work to be done at HHS in the months and years ahead, beginning with continuing the fight against COVID-19.

The crisis of COVID-19 in nursing homes has been a collision of mismanagement at every level of the industry from government regulators to individual facilities.

If confirmed, I'm committed to working on this urgent matter.

A lot of Americans feel they are just getting mugged when they go to the pharmacy counter, and we have concrete ideas for doing something about it.

I've said that every time we discuss our Federal health programs, we're going to talk about the transformation of Medicare.

I think there's an opportunity now to usher in a new set of rules that give Americans information about the basic rules under which the government conducts its operations.

let's look at ways to shore up our own house first before we start talking about approaches that could unravel some of these sacred Constitutional rights that Americans feel so strongly about.

I thank you for delivering this important wake-up call to this committee about the enormity of the cheating.

My view is, the annual tax gap is at least double the official estimate and growing.

Wealthy tax cheats have proven that with enough attack dog lawyering, they can litigate the IRS into submission and rip off working taxpayers for big money.