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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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

I think there is so much to be said for the right to feel healthy and safe and protected.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This program has been one of my top priorities, and I am disappointed that, if there were concerns, NIH didn't consult with Congress.

We cannot forget that. We have led the world. America is where hope becomes a reality.

I support the bipartisan alternative, the Lower Costs, More Cures Act, to reduce drug prices and also protect innovation for cures.

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.

If this partisan bill becomes law, I believe innovation for therapies to treat neurological diseases will come to a full stop.