The economic consequences to this plan for the American taxpayer would be unimaginable.

Under your proposal, every doctor and nurse... would become a Federal Government employee.

I do not see how anybody can take a look at our response to--the government response to this pandemic--a million people dead, the human toll and the economic devastation of these ill-advised, widespread shutdowns... how anybody could say…

I welcome a vote on Medicare for All in this Committee this year.

I would like to do more private sector involvement in health care, not less.

Count me in for innovation. Count me in for lowering costs. Count me in for improving quality.

Their biggest nightmare is to be locked in at Medicare and Medicaid rates because they would have to close.

You are right; we can lower costs and improve quality. The question is: How?

I want to put health care in the hands of people that you actually will meet and have responsibility at the ballot box.

How would that affect inflation? Not well. So, absolutely would crush an economy that needs some help.

Medicare for All really becomes Medicare for Nobody over time.

I am begging you to have a vote on your bill. I am begging you.

We are not going to fix this problem until we start voting on solutions and alternatives.

So why in the world would anybody want to put government more in charge of health care?

If you really want this to become law, you need to start voting.

Totally, he’ll maybe the best person to have, right? I mean, how mad can you get at Joe Biden?

If people can produce food in their backyard, they really have absolutely no resilience at all.

I am hoping we can pass the supplemental appropriations bill this week and that there will be $5 billion in the package to help the problems identified by our witnesses.

it is in your interests and our interest that we deal with this hunger problem not only just from a moral point of view, but from a national security perspective.

We need to spend this money and spend it now for the reasons you said, but I promise the American taxpayer, we are going to rattle some cages.

Thank you. We have votes, and I am going to go vote and we will do the best we can.

The downside to famine and hunger is so enormous that the amount of money we are spending, I think, is inadequate to the task.

The amount of money that will be in this supplemental for food and humanitarian assistance is about $5 billion.

I promise the American taxpayer, we are going to rattle some cages.

I want us as a group, Mr. Chairman, to call our allies and say you need to help too.