I want to thank Senator Warren and Senator Stabenow for putting this together.

If confirmed by the Senate, the Secretary has tremendous power. His or her decisions in office will affect all of us.

I have serious concerns with your nomination.

I do not see a similar willingness to do that in your background.

I think it's really important that we have clear answers.

If this behavior, kissing and touching women and girls without their consent, happened in a school, would you consider it a sexual assault?

Well, I think just with these questions I'm very concerned that your vision for a health care system is very different than one that I think millions of Americans are counting on.

I'm very hopeful that your tone will help us come to a conclusion and a consensus in this very important area of providing concrete, practical alternatives to give Americans access to health care they can afford.

Just days ago President-elect Trump said his plan would provide insurance for everybody.

Your bill takes away current benefits, which includes prescription drugs, mental health and substance use disorder benefits, and maternity coverage, among others. That is correct, right?

we appreciate your respect for the work of this committee, and are confident you agree that the Senate has a critical role to play in providing the President with advice and consent on his nominees.

I think it will take a little while to lower that temperature just because we spent 6 years as the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Your health care repeal bill and your budget proposal to cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid would disproportionately hurt women of color.

we object in the strongest terms to your decision to allow only a single 5-minute round of questions from committee members.

I believe it's inappropriate, and we need answers to this regarding whether you and Congressman Collins used your access to non-public information.

this nominee is going to have jurisdiction over the health care and lives of millions of Americans

it is unprecedented for a chairman to turn down a member who has a question to ask

I want to ask consent to put a letter to Chairman Alexander from all 11 Democrats on this committee on the importance of a second round of questions on this nominee.

What I believe I said to you was that I learned of the company from Congressman Collins.

I also have a petition signed by 500,000 people from across the country opposing this nomination.

We cannot afford a Secretary like Representative Tom Price, whose anti-equality voting record and harmful rhetoric foster stigma and fear of LGBTQ people.

Over the past two decades, Representative Price has spent his career dedicated to an agenda that undermines the health and well-being of the entire LGBTQ community.

these nominees in a new administration that many people have questions about deserve to be asked questions, scrutinized in public

It would take a bedside manner such as you have to lower the temperature, as Senator Kaine suggested.

Birth control is an essential part of women's health care, and if you are confirmed, I will be holding you accountable for that.