Cathy McMorris Rodgers

And I ask, I think, that we consider what it means to feel safe and healthy.

I might just mention, when the Director Walensky called to tell me about this mask recommendation, I asked her for the science, and she said, 'I'll get it to you.'

The CDC currently recommends all children ages 2 and up wear a mask indoors.

It's kind of ironic that, you know, while we're trying to keep these kids 100 percent safe, you know, that they're feeling abandoned.

We need to look at a holistic view of children's health and not just look at one disease.

I'm actually going to move on, because my concern is that we're taking this very narrow focus.

Without a doubt, this pandemic has taken a toll--taken a deep toll on all of us and on our children in particular.

Thanks to the teachers' unions influence, the guidance put out by the CDC likely led to MORE school closures.

President Biden promised he would lead with science and truth. But his administration is guilty of what Democrats claimed of the Trump Administration: prioritizing politics over science.

Our kids are in crisis, and unfortunately, this Administration is more focused on political favors, than science.

CNN and MSNBC will have you believe the greatest threat to America's children is COVID-19. They are wrong ...

The truth? If infected with COVID-19, children ages 0 to 9 have about a 0.1 percent chance of being hospitalized.

Let me be clear: no parent should have to bury their child. One death from COVID-19 is too many.

Our kids are in crisis, and, unfortunately, this administration is more focused on political allies than science.

This was a COVID-19 policy that actually made children more unhealthy and more at risk to COVID-19.

One death from COVID is too many, but we need to recognize what our response is doing to kids.

I'd call on all States and local districts to focus on keeping schools open. Prioritize our children, not politics.

Well, again, I appreciate you spending the day with us and sharing your story and advocating for so many others.

Thank you for your compelling advocacy, for sharing your story.

If just one-third of those folks on Medicare took that drug, it would cost $110 billion, and that is more than the Medicare Part B program spends on all medications for all patients.

FDA has been working on inclusivity of clinical trials. But as today's hearing is demonstrating, there's still a lot of patients desperate for access to drugs still in development that cannot get access.

As Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers just mentioned, recently we saw an almost miraculous effect of genomic therapies in spinal muscular atrophy.

If I were to support this, I need more confidence and trust in the oversight and management of the $44 billion in taxpayer funding going to NIH now ... including a clear picture on how much of that goes toward research in China.

I want to be very clear. I have historically been a champion for NIH.

For children like Hunter ... it would be devastating if socialist price controls were jammed in the Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree.