Over the past seven to 10 years or so merger filings have risen by about 57 percent and appropriations in inflation-adjusted terms have fallen by 12 percent.

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

I am proud to be an original co-sponsor of H.R. 965, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2019, or the CREATES Act.

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?

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

That is why I have introduced the CREATES Act with Chair Nadler and Ranking Member Sensenbrenner and Collins to end these delay tactics.

I hope that our discussion today will continue our bipartisan work to diagnose the problems associated with consolidation and anticompetitive conduct in healthcare markets.

These problems show up in hospital markets as well.

We're going to get at the truth, and we're going to get the materials and the evidence we need to find out exactly what happened here and to hold this administration accountable.

If people are going to claim a reason not to produce documents or testify, they have to invoke a legally recognized reason to do that.

We have a responsibility to gather evidence, to bring in witnesses, to make factual determinations, so that we can take appropriate action, as the Judiciary Committee.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Chair, I would just point out in further support of Mr. Nadler's remarks, on average, 20 veterans commit suicide every single day in this country, and two-thirds of those suicides are caused by use…

We have a gun violence epidemic in this country. For 8 years, we have marked it with moments of silence and doing nothing, saying nothing and doing nothing. But today, that changes with passage of H.R. 8 for universal background checks. We…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. We are on the precipice of passing the first commonsense gun safety bill in this Congress in 25 years. I have been here for 8 years. We begged and pleaded and had a sit-in to try to force Republicans to…

Congress, and in particular this committee, has a key oversight role to hold this administration to account.

It is alarming how this administration seems to conduct foreign policy in a values-free vacuum.

They seem to have little time for what have been real cornerstones of American foreign policy that you have written a lot about, democracy and human rights.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I rise in strong support of the rule and resolution to rescind the President's unnecessary and unconstitutional national emergency declaration. Mr. Speaker, having visited the southern border…

The administration's reckless approach and carelessness in damaging our alliances, in my view, is making America less safe.

I reject the notion that we have to make a choice between securing our borders and the hideous policy of separating children from their families.

The practice of separating these families was implemented without any system or procedure for tracking the children.

It is hard to put into words the practice of ripping innocent children, many of whom are arriving seeking protection and asylum from unspeakable violence, and ripping them from the arms of their parents.

no centralized system existed to identify, track, or connect families separated by DHS.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I want to begin by acknowledging the extraordinary leadership of the chairman of the Rules Committee and this very transparent and open process. I stand to support, strongly, H.J. Res. 37…

it would be illegal under U.S. law, inappropriate, and reckless to attempt a military intervention.