But if someone says--someone who is heavily nicotine addicted--deprivation of nicotine actually incites a fairly significant physiological and psychological response.

Reducing youth tobacco rates is essential to a healthy America.

There is potential infringement on the First Amendment by requiring graphic health warnings on cigarette labels and advertising.

But the way our system is set up, we can legislate, and we do legislate all the time.

I thought that was odd, and I thought that was wrong.

When it's an issue of public health at stake, it is critical that Congress work with the agencies.

It's devastating that so many young people and many of their parents are operating under an assumption, oh, that these products are harmless.

Our bill also establishes a one-billion-dollar reimbursement program to help small carriers remove compromised equipment and replace it with secure alternatives.

We must help smaller carriers remove suspect equipment for the good of the entire country.

I want to thank Ranking Member Walden, Representatives Matsui, and Guthrie for partnering with me to introduce the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act.

Everybody on this committee needs to know that we can't do anything that drives innovation to another country like China that could cause us to have a tainted drug supply or that, as one of these articles talks about, pharmaceuticals from…

H.R. 3 is a proposal that was drafted behind closed doors by Speaker Pelosi and is being forced through this committee by the chairman.