clearly, patents are part of the free market system, is the way that you protect intellectual property, and you incent creativity.

Very concisely, how are we going to show restraint on the price of some of these new gene therapies?

Now, we have been discussing the promise of biosimilars to lower the cost in a market oriented, competitive way.

Now, value-based purchasing could obviously play a role here.

For the sake of those who are watching, a rebate wall is an anti-competitive tool which can be used to restrict a competitor's entry into a formulary.

I think I recall a couple of years ago there was a study that was shown, respected, and you probably know it better than I, that $2 million for gene therapy for ultra-rare diseases was a reasonable sort of--it would cover the cost.

We demand CEOs come before the Committee for public verbal stoning.

I have been concerned that we don't really know how we are going to price those.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 35, H. Res. 996. personal explanation

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The border is a catastrophe.

These facts require it. The House of Representatives has the constitutional responsibility of impeachment, and that begins with the investigation.

Extreme times, desperate times call for desperate measures, and that's where we are.

That's why this is such a failure of leadership.

We need to make absolutely clear to Iran that nothing is off the table. You know, we maintain peace through strength. That was the Reagan Doctrine. That's what President Trump continued. And that's what we have to do right now.

The president of the United States opened the border. We documented 64 specific actions that Joe Biden and his agencies have taken to create this catastrophe. They did it intentionally.