We were completely unsuccessful in attempting to get HUD to even respond properly.

It is important for us to know that the most popular strains in Colorado ranged from 17 percent to 28 percent THC by 2017--a 400 percent increase from 1970.

If you look at CDC, provisional data from CDC indicates that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States.

I support life from conception to natural death, and I make no apologies for that.

Madam Chairman, today's activities are designed to divide Congress, to divide the American people, and not to bring us together.

I'm hopeful that my colleagues will communicate across the aisle, and let's deal with this honestly.

It will not be, in my opinion, decided in the near term, because we have a President who's been duly elected, who would not sign that legislation.

But what I would say is let's--let's not beat up this issue with what I believe is hyperbole to just beat the issue up and talk about nationwide ban is what Republicans want to do and they want to take away all these rights and obligations.

Well, in fact, the Supreme Court ruled that it's not a constitutional issue. It's states' rights issue.

I want to thank you, I think, for holding this hearing today because I think public discussion on both sides of this issue and issues is necessary.

They have placed arbitrarily California and millions of people in a diminished position: elderly people, people in hospitals, people who are disabled, people who actually need balance in their life.