I have a unanimous consent request at the desk. My request is to allow a 30-second moment of silence for the passing of Rush Limbaugh, one of the greatest radio hosts ever, and I make that as a formal request.

May I request a point of personal privilege. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Haaland). The gentleman has been recognized for debate.

this isn't a Democrat or a Republican issue, this is an American issue.

Let me remind my colleagues on the--my friends on the left, that had it not been for Operation Warp Speed to produce this vaccine, there would be no vaccine.

Here we sit on this fourth day of February and, here we go, we have a pandemic that is shutting down businesses all across this country. We have schools shut down, causing havoc with our children. We have a national debt of over $30…

It is an absolute hypocrisy underway.

How do you stop illegal immigration when you release them into our borders?

under the Biden administration we are going to be admitting millions of people coming across the border

The actions are going to follow. So, when you admit that many people or if you took out that many people from the country that will have a financial impact, correct?

This is just an outrage.

You admit we have got a pandemic, don't you?

I mean, that is just an absolute outrage.

It is an honor to come before you today to celebrate National Bible Week. What better time to celebrate Bible Week in what is called the people's House, but what is ultimately God's house. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a…

the price of insulin, as an example, which has been around a hundred years or more, that doesn't require any research and development, that ought to be stopped.

It is offensive to me as a cancer survivor, and I really strongly suggest that you take back to your company just the things that have come to light here and rethink the way you handle the process of approving generic competitors to access…

Public disclosure of pricing ought to be highlighted.

Miracle drugs that cure cancer, cure a lot of the illnesses we have, are no good if our patients can afford it.

That is almost incredible, but OK.

That is all, six percent?

Then I would ask your company to lead the way. Get us a blueprint what would do just what you said where patients can afford drugs, as an example, insulin, that is unaffordable for so many families.

For example, for total homicides year over year for the 15 largest U.S. cities, Austin, in the district that I represent, ranked first at 64 percent increase.

Defunding the police, creating broad, false narratives about law enforcement and encouraging violence in our streets in the name of politics is harming our communities.

You can't defund the police.

If better data had been available to policymakers, we would have known just how vulnerable the elderly are to this virus.

As policymakers, our decisions must be informed by data.