Thank you very much, Chairman DeGette, for holding this important hearing on COVID-19 vaccines.

I am curious about, you know, how old is the AstraZeneca stockpile now, and when does it expire?

This is exciting. However, eligibility is very different than accessibility and shots in the arm.

Because of the success of Operation Warp Speed and the unprecedented efforts of the private sector, to date we have three safe and effective vaccines that have received Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) from the U.S. Food and Drug…

There is light at the end of what has been a very dark tunnel.

I think that legislation is important to keep.

what you see across the country right now is really almost a tale of two different economies.

Canceling student loan debt is regressive, it is inequitable and it is ill-perceived.

I ask unanimous consent to call up H.R. 682, the Reopen Schools Act, to get our kids out from behind screens and back in the classroom. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair understands that the gentleman from Massachusetts has not yielded…

Those are tank rounds, anti-tank rounds, which makes no sense.

I think that is very important.

we need to make sure we don't leave out the communities of central Appalachia as we go forward.

Infrastructure is one of the key areas in which help is needed.

That makes no sense. So my contention is that the EPA wants to have the public trust.

There's nothing in the world that I could agree with more.

I believe the EPA exceeded its statutory authority to justify several regulations.

Coal communities are faced with many challenges.

that's a real problem in southwestern Virginia as well as West Virginia.

Protecting the environment and promoting an innovative economy are not mutually exclusive ideals.

I think that we need to do a much better job in terms of transparency.

We need to make sure that we are following the law and not following our wishes.

we have to work on climate change by working on research and development.

Thanks to the last administration's great partnership with private industry, Pfizer and Moderna started shipping vaccines across the United States within 24 hours of receiving their EUAs.

Thank you, Chair DeGette, for holding this important hearing on the availability of COVID-19 vaccines.

I want to make sure that Americans are taken care of in this process first, but we also want to share with other countries because that helps to keep the virus from coming back or to having more mutations.