So, I want to start with, there has been a suggestion somehow, and I wasn't good in math, but there has been a suggestion that we are going from two to three, which just seems to me a really silly claim.

For the benefit of my constituents, I want to hear everything I can today about the potential this merger has for positive or negative impact on rural communities.

I think we can see clearly, that when people are represented by a union, they earn better wages and better benefits.

I commend the Subcommittee for holding this hearing on the proposed merger. I am also delighted that the Subcommittee is beginning this term of Congress with two consecutive antitrust hearings.

I truly believe that the New T-Mobile will build the best wireless network this country has ever seen.

Ending this moral crisis is a top priority for me as Chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee and a top priority for House Democrats to keep our promise to work for the people, to prevent big mergers that would harm consumers, workers, and…

The President not only overruled the intelligence and law enforcement communities, he lied about. He said he had nothing to do with it. We now know that's not true.

This is our responsibility. We take it seriously. The good news is, the President keeps saying all we're going to do is investigate. While we're doing these investigations, we passed the most comprehensive Ethics Reform Bill since…

My belief is that if we do not fix this that the ever-increasing costs are going to lead to a different kind of solution, which is just price regulation by the government.

the FBI should notify them when a domestic abuser attempts to purchase a firearm and fails the background check.

For more than 20 years, the Violence Against Women Act has provided really critical protections for women who have experienced horrific violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

I think the suggestion that transgender individuals are pretending they are of a different gender is deeply offensive.

It is unacceptable that it took a full decade to address this abuse of our patent system.

It is really noteworthy to me that one of the most anticompetitive things that occurs is the heavy hand of the Federal Government constraining access to medical cannabis.

I want to commend this Subcommittee for reviewing the consolidation and anticompetitive practice across the healthcare marketplace...

I want to take a moment to ask Mr. Garthwaite, in this broader discussion we are having about consolidation what role does the Federal Government have in spurring consolidation through excessive regulation of the health marketplace?

Ending this moral crisis is a top priority of mine as chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee and a top priority for House Democrats to keep our promise to work for the people and to make healthcare affordable for everyone.

your time of terrorizing this marketplace is over.

I also want to praise Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis.

Making registration automatic will ensure that everyone who wishes to be added to the voter rolls will not have to think twice about it, and I am proud that H.R. 1 will implement automatic voter registration. For too long, Mr. Speaker…

I am very concerned about the rising tide of economic concentration throughout our economy and the really crippling effects on economic opportunity, innovation, and equality.

These problems show up in hospital markets as well.

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.

I look forward to working with Chair Nadler and Senators Klobuchar and Grassley on legislation to confront and reverse this problem.

This Committee has been and will continue to be active in stopping drug companies from reaping monopoly profits at the expense of the health of working American families.