It is wrong to talk about what happened in the House today as a health care bill. This was not a health care bill. This was a bill that provided $300 billion in tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent.

Republicans voted to throw their constituents off insurance, they should be ashamed.

it is no great secret that the American people do not have a great deal of confidence in their government. It is no secret that the American people think the Congress is way out of touch with their needs and aspirations. In fact, just…

I would like to congratulate and honor a Vermont resident for his outstanding commitment to ensuring transparency between the Federal Government and the American public. Mark Schlefer of Putney, VT, played an integral role in the creation…

The goal of real education is not to create people who can regurgitate facts. It's to create critical thinkers.

We have heard from oncologists and other doctors that people are dying. Their patients are dying because they cannot afford the outrageously high prices of prescription drugs.

part of the FDA's mission is to make medicines--this is the FDA mission not Bernie Sanders' idea--'More effective, safer, and more affordable.'

He said he was, 'Going to stop Wall Street from getting away with murder,' but he has drained half of Goldman Sachs into his administration.

When you help the suffering, stand up for the little guy and try to make this world a better place, you become more beautiful.

He said that he would not cut Social Security, and Medicare, and Medicaid.

I believe the agency can play an important role on this important issue by taking steps to improve product competition.

He said he would, 'Drain the Swamp.' He now has more billionaires in his administration than any President in American history.

If confirmed, I will commit to working with the agency's staff to quickly get up to speed on the regulatory history related to menu labeling.

He said he would provide, 'Health insurance for everybody,' but he just supported an embarrassing, disastrous healthcare proposal that would have thrown 24 million people off of health insurance.

Trump talked about that and he was right.

Your goal is, from what I am hearing, you oppose the ideas that President Trump said he was going to do to the American, for the American people.

If confirmed, I intend to lead the FDA as an impartial and passionate advocate for the public health.

The problem is that drug importation does not address any of these core challenges.

We should be able to re-import lower cost prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.

It is the fact that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

I rise today to oppose the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States. After meeting with Judge Gorsuch and having a long and pleasant conversation, after hearing his testimony before the Judiciary…

If Republicans are serious, let's work together. That's one way to save billions of dollars for Americans in terms of health care costs.

The Republican agenda, tax breaks for billionaires, massive cuts to health care, great increase in expenditures for the military budget. Not acknowledging the reality of climate change. All of those ideas are way out of touch with where…

I believe in a Medicare for all single-payer program but it ain't going to happen right now. We don't have the support in the Congress for that.

Nobody really cares that it's a failure of Trump or a failure of Ryan. What the American people are asking is how does it happen that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?