We cannot begin to understand the grief and anger the families of those killed at the Clarksburg VA Medical Center have felt this last year.

But you know that is naive to think that that is what happening--children. Why aren't they just off the market until you make a final determination?

Why has the FDA not finalized some kind of determination that allows these things because they are still out there on a generally approved or how do you describe their permitted use?

Can you work with me a little bit on how we might be able to get the public be more aware that we are going to challenge energy for a while?

I know we are going to have some impact on that.

I have probably spent 50 years, nearly 50 years in the construction sector specifying a lot of low energy--low use--low-energy use and high-efficiency building.

I have been troubled as an engineer that we tend to ignore that, the impact that indoor air quality is going to have an effect on it.

I thought this panel was all about unaccompanied children, but you can see this conversation has drifted to other matters.

Has there been a crisis at the border?

But it was John Maxwell that said a leader has no followers is merely a man taking a walk.

Our Democratic colleagues have not engaged with Republicans in a meaningful way and the politics of climate change, unfortunately, seems to have overtaken rolling up our sleeves and getting to work on, really, bipartisan solutions.

But how? Don't go 30,000 feet with me. How do we get it?

If Democrats want to tackle climate change, they should work with Republicans, because that's how we're going to get to serious solutions that can become law.

A ban on fracking and on natural gas development... would wipe out a major source, not only of American prosperity but also of fuel that has lower emissions.

Such a ban would wipe out a major source of American prosperity, lead to Americans paying higher prices for the same energy, and increased reliance on foreign sources--with no impact on the world's appetite for energy.

Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change because it is the only emissions-free energy source that is available 24 hours a day.

To reduce emissions, we need nuclear power. Democrats who are unable to say those simple words are doing as much harm to solving the climate crisis as any other.

We need to be encouraging these technologies, just as we have with President Trump signing into law critical tax credits for carbon capture technology.

I am curious to see the advantage of making a change at this point in how this works if it has been successful to date.

Because we all know that--any of us have sat in on enough briefings, we know people are hacking into our systems.

I am an original cosponsor of that, and I just want to thank you all for being here today and your heartfelt testimony.

In my district, that means Olympic Medical Center, the hospital where I was born, could face, could lose $47 million over the next 10 years.

The American public is relying on us to bring down the costs of pharmaceuticals, and the time to act is now.

CMS argues that reducing these payments will increase competition with private providers. That argument is based entirely on flawed logic and faulty assumptions.

Cutting reimbursements actually exacerbates that shortage by dramatically reducing the funds available to retain and hire healthcare professionals and purchase new medical equipment.