This is a remarkable achievement. We should applaud these efforts that have been undertaken by manufacturers to help crush the virus.

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

I hope the FDA will look at the process and that we can make improvements on the approval of medication because this is extremely important.

We will get through this pandemic by pulling together, not through the dictates of misguided leadership.

I am sitting here amused because many of your questions were similar to the ones that I had written out, and, as so often happens, while people back home think that Republicans and Democrats can't get along or that everything is a fight…

Governor Inslee foolishly interfered with Whitman County's plan to vaccinate teachers and school staff by threatening to withhold vaccines.

Don't forget what I said about PBMs. They're the devil.

Clearly there has been confusion about the safety and the efficacy of the shot and in some States confusion about the who-what-when-where details of getting the shot.

Ending the pandemic in this country hinges on the efficacy of the national vaccine distribution efforts.

As Justice Brandeis said, the States are the laboratories of democracy.

I'm just thrilled to be the Republican leader on this subcommittee. It's a subcommittee I've served on since I first got to the committee, and I love it and I think we're going to do some great work.

Ending the pandemic hinges on the efficacy of the national vaccine distribution efforts.

Operation Warp Speed was launched in May 2020 to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

It is true that Pfizer did not receive any R&D money as a part of Operation Warp Speed.

Point of order. The SPEAKER. The gentleman will state his point of order.

Yes, ma'am. The point of order would be that the gentleman said that there were lies on this floor here today, looking over in this direction. I ask that those words be taken down. We may have a disagreement on matters, but-- The SPEAKER…

Further parliamentary inquiry. Mr. Vice President, I am not attempting to debate. I am trying to find out how a parliamentary inquiry or a parliamentary point of order would be made in following with the Speaker's request that most of us…

Mr. Vice President, in order to follow the Speaker's instructions that only a limited number of people be on the floor, may I ask how one would make an objection or make a parliamentary inquiry in the future if you are not on the floor but…

Mr. Vice President, parliamentary inquiry. The VICE PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Virginia will state his parliamentary inquiry.

I appreciate that this bill has made it to this level. You know, Congress doesn't always work well, but sometimes it does. Andy Harris and I were back here, about where he is sitting right now, having a discussion one day, because a lot of…

I agree with that, and I can say as an affirmative to your comments to Mr.

We have heard a lot of great comments about John. I was not officially a mentee, but when I first got to the Energy and Commerce Committee, he immediately started giving me pointers and guidance. We would talk about issues, and we would…

Currently seven percent of Virginia's population is uninsured.

Congress has an opportunity to step in and fill that and act as it sees appropriate.

Under the reform I propose, if you would like, you can--if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.