Howard Griffith

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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

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

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

However, as we've heard in a subcommittee hearing a few weeks ago with representatives from a handful of States, vaccine supplies remain the number one hurdle to vaccinating Americans at a faster pace.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Currently seven percent of Virginia's population is uninsured.

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

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