David Cicilline

It is unacceptable that people suffering from diabetes must worry about life-threatening consequences of not being able to afford insulin.

Thank you for your testimony that I think really helped to inform the work of this Committee

Absolutely, Mr. Buck, and I look forward to our ongoing discussion on that really critical issue.

We also need to enhance and improve the laws with regard to our power of enforcement.

Yesterday, I reintroduced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients through Competition Act together with Subcommittee Ranking Member Buck and Senators Cornyn and Blumenthal.

In closing, the American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and other barriers to affordable healthcare.

You have to make sure that there is no energy poverty.

I urge my House colleagues to vote for this package and close the gender wage gap once and for all.

I thank you, Chairman Deutch and Ranking Member Wilson, for calling this hearing to help us understand how we might have more effective policy as it relates to Syria.

This is a problem that can only be solved by increased federal investment.

The need for these funds to upgrade wastewater systems cannot be overstated.

Please be sure that deadlines like this one are not allowed to slip.

This committee's work, I have no doubt, will save lives and property; and it will restore peace of mind to the communities I'm honored to represent.

I am particularly grateful that the package included legislation that Senator Markey, Congressman Moulton, and I introduced--the Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act.

We have the opportunity to pass the once-in-a-generation infrastructure package that will stabilize and modernize the Nation's economy, and put millions of people to work.

Investments in high-speed broadband will end the isolation facing millions of Americans, create more jobs, and help strengthen our economy.

I urge the committee to establish a new grant program that specifically addresses the needs of wastewater infrastructure in financially distressed municipalities.

We must build and retrofit infrastructure capable of withstanding the rising waters, more intense and more frequent storms brought on by climate change.

I support $55 million in funding for the program, and the creation of a quality assistance program to provide technical assistance, and help designees continue to meet the criteria of the program.

I urge the committee to support the bipartisan and bicameral solution to our Nation's infrastructure needs.

These challenges present an urgent need to repair and rebuild our roads, bridges, ports, and transit systems to create jobs, invest in local economies, and enhance the safety of our communities.

Thank you very much. And I want to thank Chairman DeFazio for inviting me to share my thoughts with you as the committee works to reauthorize the surface transportation programs, and to pass President Biden's American Jobs Plan.

One of the other things that I know from my own practice is, when you sit through an arraignment, you see lots of people of color; White folks, when you go to the prison and do your prison visit, it feels like the White folks have all been…

It seems like the reliance on these false confessions that are produced as a result of deception by law enforcement is a pretty easy thing to fix by simply prohibiting that practice.

I think if we are all honest, Congress has benefited from our failure to engage in this work because we have left the difficult decisions to the executive branch.