the NIH's budget should be doubled. But shockingly, a bill passed by the House instead cut NIH's funding by $10 billion.

We should be increasing our investment in medical research, not slashing it.

Despite these many significant concerns, our Republican colleagues would have taxpayers pay monopoly prices for questionable drugs and devices.

over 200 device qualified in the first 3 years of the program. And some of those didn't actually show any useful benefits for patients and had important safety risks.

``Here Comes the Sun.'' It is more than a great tune. It is about a great renewable future, but our Republican colleagues refuse to see through the dark smoke of fossil fuels and fossilized thinking. They just blindly follow Trump at every…

I oppose this Republican ``Default on America'' act because it will create more deficits for millions of Americans. It will create an educational opportunity deficit for the students that are relying on Pell grants, seeing them slashed…

With this bill, our Republican colleagues offer their answer to our overheated planet, turn up the heat. And to those parents concerned about their children's future in what could become an uninhabitable planet, they say quite simply…

Well, I hope that in addition to what you do in terms of payment, that we will continue to see a vigorous examination of the false claims that are made to ensure that everyone who relies on Medicare Advantage and takes that approach gets…

It is not enough to say we will not cut Medicare. It is taking the steps necessary to ensure that it is there not just for today's grandparents, but for tomorrow's grandchildren.

I very much favor expanding trade so long as it is worker-centered and environment is protected, and that includes Asia.

But so long as it is not enforceable, it is really fairly meaningless.

As you know, one of my long-standing concerns going back to at least the Obama administration has been the enforcement of our agreement with Peru.

And I hope you will continue to advocate that point of view to others in the administration who may not share it.

I am concerned about one particular example of abuse, and that is in Honduras, where a U.S. company, Prospera Inc., is suing the Honduran Government for close to $11 billion.

I think we would be better off if the language was public.

I admire your leadership on the global minimum tax.

So if people really believe in Medicare, they would be willing to take the steps to ensure it is there.

Isn't it correct that the estimates are that about 85 percent of that increase would be paid by those who earn $1 million or more a year, and that none of the tax burden would be on those below $400,000?

So, it is not a surprise to me that Texas, that failed so significantly to meet the needs of worthy people, was not doing its job on the fraud side, either.

And in the Biden Administration I believe that not all of your recommendations have been fully implemented yet, but haven't there been a number of additional resources, additional dollars that were provided through the American Rescue Plan…

I was prepared to vote for this resolution. Socialism is clearly not the best path for America. Who wants to be associated with Stalin and the others whom this resolution denounces? They were really thugs who were masquerading as…

This first Republican bill should be known as the protect Donald Trump and his tax cheating cronies act. After years of obstructing access to Donald Trump's tax returns, we learned how little he paid toward the cost of our national…

We do you know that he paid some years, more taxes, to foreign governments than he did, here, in the United States.

You can see for yourselves, the fact that this President signed the tax return. You'll see his signature, where year after year, he paid nothing, or paid $750.

Well, we had a lively discussion about this. I think that there's, certainly, a sensitivity, on the part of Democrats, to protecting taxpayer privacy.