"I am an original cosponsor of that, and I just want to thank you all for being here today and your heartfelt testimony."
"These bad actors must be held accountable."
"I come before you today as an advocate for thousands of my constituents in Ohio's 9th congressional district who are struggling to afford their prescription medicine."
"The American public is relying on us to bring down the costs of pharmaceuticals, and the time to act is now."
"Cutting reimbursements actually exacerbates that shortage by dramatically reducing the funds available to retain and hire healthcare professionals and purchase new medical equipment."
"The opioid epidemic has ravaged too many families and neighborhoods."
"CMS argues that reducing these payments will increase competition with private providers. That argument is based entirely on flawed logic and faulty assumptions."
"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."
"We need a working majority of Democrats and Republicans who are going to come together to get a bill that will--a slate of bills that will get us to this 100 percent clean energy in 2050."
"It matters little to the global environment what the United States does to decarbonize its economy."
"We need to be focusing more on what we are going to do in the oceans to be able to increase the phytoplankton content so that we can increase their CO2 capture."