Howard Griffith

The rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority because the majority can do whatever it wants to whenever it wants to.

While the PPP loan program has been a success, I am afraid it could be a bridge to nowhere.

Small businesses throughout the country have seen their revenues become nonexistent in a matter of days due to stay-at-home orders meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

One of the top priorities that I have is the adequate need for funding of coal communities in Virginia and throughout Appalachia.

We need to reclaim the abandoned mine lands in a way that both supports economic development and helps us transition from an economy that was built on coal.

Whenever you can bring Tim Kaine from his side of the political spectrum and Morgan Griffith from my side of the political spectrum together, you have done something.

Landowner's rights have to be respected.

I agree with you that trying to say it is either climate or forest management is a false dichotomy.

It causes me some great concern that apparently the FDA thinks it is OK for opioids and opiates and barbiturates, but somehow marijuana should stay schedule I.

Virginia actually has the oldest medicinal marijuana law on the books.

I told them my position on medical marijuana, which I went public with in 1998 on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.

When I was a young man in the 1980s, some of my friends were smuggling marijuana into the hospital in our community...

I appreciate that. As one of the sponsors of the bills, a lot of times people think, why does a conservative Republican get into this and champion it?

Once a resolution passes the House, it goes to the Senate. Once all action is done, the Speaker is a mere functionary in transmitting the will of the House to the Senate. It has been 21 calendar days, 12 working days, and 7 legislative…

I respectfully disagree that it is an advisory opinion and thank the Chair for her indulgence. ____________________

I would ask the gentleman, if this is not true, as I understand it, the PBMs have gone, in some cases, to the drug manufacturers, said, Raise your price. We will do rebates. But those rebates don't help anybody in the donut hole. Those…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. In committee, I raised issues of unconstitutional takings in H.R. 3. Ninety-five percent of gross revenues are taken from a manufacturer unless they agree to the price the government offers. It is not…

Innovation is extremely important.

When you don't like it, you are going to come back and say: Oh, my gosh, they are sabotaging the intent of the bill. Well, forget the intent. Read the bill. Read the bill. This bill has significant problems. It needs to go back to…

I have learned from Democrat press conferences and Washington Post leaks that this body has an ongoing so- called impeachment inquiry. But can I, as a Member of Congress, watch the testimony? No. Can you watch the testimony at home so you…

We all want to make the air cleaner. There are things that we can do, that we can accomplish to do that where Democrats and Republicans can come together in a bipartisan way and make our environment better and keep our economy strong.

I do think we need to have some research parity so that we have our fossil fuels and our renewables both being researched at a high level.

We need to get down to the local level as well.

We need to get down to the local level as well because while the state of Virginia has issues--I don't know whether it's in the top ten--but the Washington Post article pointed out that the most number of pills, number one was in my…

I think the short answer to that is they can't.