the demand--the desire, the thirst for something real that could help families across the country--is beginning to overwhelm the inside game

the price setting is being done by the pharma industry, because here is what's happened: We are here, in my view, because of egregious overreach by the pharmaceutical industry.

This committee has to make a very simple decision: Will our Government be an advocate on behalf of consumers and taxpayers?

Do we need to have our Government play a role to protect consumers or maintain the status quo where we don't?

Let's get into the details a little bit on this. Under current law, the Secretary of HHS is prohibited from interfering with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors.

we are at this point, finally, because so many families out there are affected, and they've just had enough

On the proposed bill, money that is saved, some of it will go back into scientific research at NIH.

there are three Big Pharma lobbyists for every Member of Congress

It's going to crush everyone.

I mean, certainty--there is certainty right now whatever price you want to charge, we'll pay.

So it's really important to put this--to acknowledge that these acts are not just acts of hate; they're political acts intended to have a political effect.

Mr. Welch. Thank you.

I think the other thing that's worth exploring is the public racial reconciliation process, which the United States has never undertaken in any major scale.

I think we do have some organizations who are doing the very, very difficult kind of frontline work of reaching people in these groups and helping them leave the movement.

How? Just explain how that would work.

it's important to remember that the key thing people often are missing about this ideology is the critical piece of information about how a tiny fringe movement of people thinks they possibly can do what they've set out to do.

The Twenty-Third Amendment of the Constitution allows D.C. to participate in Presidential elections.

Thank you for all your years of leadership on this, Madam Chair. You have been an inspiration for us.

Congress and the states would not want the few residents of the reduced D.C. to have so much power over the election of the president.

If enacted, H.R. 51 would admit the state of Washington D.C. but leave the Twenty-Third Amendment in place.

I just want to register my outrage at that because so much of the people we represent need that coverage and don't want to be second-class citizens.

It really is not acceptable.

I'm tired of those talking points and so is President Trump, and I just want to say, 'Amen.'

It's for us to figure out how they're doing that.

But, you know, the bottom line is, we are all in this together, and we have to have--politics is about trying to find ways where the things that are common problems, we can come up with solutions that work for all of us.