"It is a failure because of poor planning on the part of HHS and mismanagement of the law passed by Congress."
"I don't think Executive orders are the way to go, I think we should do it legislatively."
"I have a bill with Henry Cuellar of Laredo. It is a bipartisan bill to repeal the ban on physician-owned hospitals."
"We are going to need bipartisan effort to work together to find common ground to save Social Security and protect Medicare."
"Any doctor in this country that you asked that question will tell you that they have suffered significant reimbursement reductions."
"Why was it not a priority to fix these problems while the Democrats were doing their reconciliation bills the last 2 years?"
"There is a difference of opinion on what it does to the downstream effects of innovation."
"But according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal--quoting here--'China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday that a sale or divestiture of TikTok will involve exporting technology [that has] to ..."
"Any TikTok or ByteDance data that is viewed, stored, or passes through China is subject to the laws of China, a one-party, authoritarian state hostile to all American standards of privacy."
"I fear TikTok will grow into a much bigger problem--a cancer, if you will."
"I thank the chair and just echo Mr. Cardenas' thanks to all of our constituents for making the trip to be part of this field hearing."
"It is a very important hearing, and it is appropriate that we are doing it here in the Rio Grande Valley."