mr. baldwin. he is so awesome.ant to speak on the fact that, yes, this is horrible, we had someone in there for five years that spoke so terribly against black people, against all minorities, but most black. we have 165 laws they are trying to get in that suppress voting right now and people talk about these immigrants, why have we never had a show on the fact that this man had to pay 25 million to immigrants that he hides from every day and not one time have i heard c-span say anything about that. he also had to pay for the university that was in a university, a total scam. you don't talk about those things about him. these republicans call in every day and talk about how much they hate, how much they fear the democrats and the democrats are the ones, we don't have this fear for you. i love my brothers and sisters all. i'm so thankful for people like you that get up here and try to educate people. this is horrible to be shot in the back with a knee on the neck. these things should not pass. we should stop it right

mr. baldwin. he was so awesome. i want to speak on the fact that yes, this is horrible, we had someone in there for five years that just spoke so but black ripple, gets on minorities but most black, we have 165 people are trying to laws -- right now and people talk about the port about these immigrants, why have we never gone a show on the fact that this man had to pay 25 million to immigrants that he hires them every day and one comment about i heard c-span say anything about that? he also had to pay for the university that was in history era city, it's a total scam and you don't talk about those things about him. but these people, these republicans calling here every day and talk about how much they hate, how much they fear the democrats and the democrats are the ones -- we don't have this fear for you, and i love my brothers and sisters all and i am so thankful for people like you, that get up here and try to educate people. this is horrible to be shot in the back with the knee on the neck. these things should no

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baldwin: i yield back, mr. chairman? >> thank you so much , chairman. i want to emphasize that both sides of the aisle agree on the same goal, that we want to figure out affordable access to all prescriptions for all people and just bring some of my insight as a physician to this committee. i want to talk about insulin for a second and i appreciate the testimony on this. this is a prescription i've written thousands of times, and it's part of this opaque game. i call it the opaque game. there is a list price and a net price. the list price of insulin has gone up thousands of times, and that is what the out-of-pocket is based upon. the person that testified today, the medicare patient paying out-of-pocket based on the list price. the net price in many instances has gone down since 2007. this is where the opaque process happens. as far as i know this is the only business in america that is allowed to have legal kickbacks. there are legal kickbacks from the middleman to big pharma as well as insurance companies and we don't know who else. that's the opaque

mr. michael baldwin, president of the brennan center for justice at new york university bosque. -- law school. he began his career in 1989 as the director of public citizens congress watch. from '93 to '95, he served as a special assistant to president clinton for policy coordination and was the top white house aide on campaign reform. he then continued to serve in the clinton administration as director of speech writing and assistant to the president in 1999. -- until 1999. he has written four state of the union addresses and two inaugural addresses. mr.wildman has also been a lecturer in public policy at the harvard john f. kennedy school of government and practiced law in washington, d.c. and new york. he received his b.a. from columbia university and his law degree from nyu school of law. i'll now turn it over to senator blunt to introduce the two other witnesses. senator blunt: thank you, senator klobuchar. since you responded to senator mcconnell's comments, i have one brief comment to what senator schumer had to say. he said he would like for any republican to answer the question of wh

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baldwin: thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member, and members of the committee.nk you for holding this historic hearing and allowing me to be part of it. the people sent me first to the house of representatives in 1999, we have seen enormous advances for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. on a bipartisan basis, we have expanded our nation's hate crimes law to violence against this community. repealed the don't ask, don't tell law that barred open service by gay and lesbian service members. through the actions of state legislatures and state and federal courts, marriage equality has become a reality in every corner of this country. our work is not yet done. because of that, the house has twice passed on a bipartisan basis the equality act. discrimination remains a daily reality for members of the lgbtq community. discrimination is a painful reality. a majority of states still lack comprehensive nondiscrimination protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations. education, and elsewhere. when our community fought for hate crime

mrs. potato head, now it's dr. seuss. you know, green eggs and ham. you're not -- i'm promise you, you're not going to want to miss this debate. later, some words for alec baldwincome the newest member of the fox family, kayleigh mcenany, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: we are also learning tonight that sales are ceasing for six dr. seuss books over what is being described as racist and insensitive imagery. now the books include titles like "and to think that i saw it on mulberry street," "if i ran the zoo," as the dr. seuss enterprise has told the ap, these books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. now it comes as the biden white house has erased, literally erased dr. seuss from their read across america proclamation this week and follows last week's debacle with mr. and mrs. potato head going gender-neutral, and by the way, michelle obama herself, yep, you can see in that picture there, was not long ago dr. seuss was beloved by all. that picture, michelle obama reading dr. seuss books to children, when she was the first lady, that was "the cat in the hat" commit all of the kids had hats. listen to what barack obama had to say back in 2015. >>

baldwin: i notice the absence of a quorum. the president pro tempore: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: it is so ordered. mr. schumer: now, madam president, the past few weeks in the senate have been extremely productive. senate democrats delivered on our promise to pass bold covid relief legislation, and we have now confirmed 16, 16 cabinet level officials. today we'll continue to -- continue moving the ball forward on the president's nominees by confirming representative deb haaland to serve as president biden's secretary of the interior. rep haaland has already made history as one of two members who became the first native american women to serve in the house of representatives. she is a citizen of the laguna pueblo nation, and her family's roots in new mexico can be traced for 35 generations. by her own account, she grew up poor, moving frequently. her mother served in the navy, and her father spent a 30-year career in the marines. while the federal g