the Democratic Party has got to do a whole lot of re-thinking, and they have got to establish a 50-state strategy.

On issue after issue, Mr. Trump's position is at variance with what the majority of the American people want.

What those protests and rallies are the beginning of is making Mr. Trump aware that throwing 20 million people off of health insurance, for example, without a replacement is not something that the American people want.

The bottom line here is we want a president that concentrates on the needs of the American people, not on profits that may approve to him or his family.

We want a president who is going to make decisions based on the needs of the American people. Not based on foreign investments in the people who own his debt.

It's one thing to kill the TPP, which is a positive step, in my view. It's another thing to develop a trade policy which finally works for American workers and not the CEOs of large multinational corporations.

Has access to does not mean that they are guaranteed health care. I have access to buying a $10 million home. I don't have the money to do that.

There are many of us on this side of the aisle who are working on legislation that would do at least two things: No. 1, end the absurdity of the American people being ripped off by the pharmaceutical industry.

Should people, because they are Americans, be able to go to the doctor when they need to, be able to go into a hospital, because they are Americans?

We are paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right.

You are going to be the head of the agency to protect the environment, and your personal feelings about whether climate change is caused by human activity and carbon emissions are immaterial?

While you are not certain, the vast majority of scientists are telling us that if we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are…

Ninety-seven percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.

If that is the kind of Administrator for the EPA, your State is having a record breaking number of earthquakes, you acknowledge that you are concerned. If that is the kind of EPA Administrator you will be, you are not going to get my vote.

Would you by so kind to tell us how much your family has contributed to the Republican Party over the years?

You haven't told me why you think the climate is changing.

President-elect Trump received almost 3 million votes less than Secretary Clinton, but he won the electoral college.

He won a number of States by rather slim margins.

the fear is that the nomination of Mr. Pruitt is a nomination designed to protect the fossil fuel industry and not the environment.

do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family has not made hundreds of millions of dollars of contributions to the Republican party, that you would be sitting here today?

It's not a question of opportunity. It's a question of being able to afford it.

there is a growing fear in this country that we are moving toward what some would call an oligarchic form of society, where a small number of very, very wealthy billionaires control to a significant degree our economic and political life.

Some of us believe that we should make public colleges and universities tuition-free so that every young person in this country, regardless of income, does have that option.

Would you agree with me that if there is a mom watching this hearing who makes $30,000, $40,000 a year, a single mom perhaps, who has to pay $10,000 or $15,000 a year for childcare for her daughter, that that is a burden that is almost…