Madam President, I thank my colleague Senator Casey for, as usual, his thoughtful, erudite, on-the-money remarks--this time about judges. I am going to talk about that in a minute. We see something happening here. We see State after State…

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Madam President, first, I want to thank the Senator from Minnesota--the senior Senator--for all of the great work she has done in working to reduce the high cost of drugs for the American people. The Middle East Madam President, on a much…

Lacking a consistent credible response, I have to think that, where there's smoke, there is indeed fire.

I am deeply concerned about the reorganization of the National Weather Service forecast offices.

Let me be very clear. If you are defying Congress and the American people by using this process to diminish the capacity and number of our forecasters, Congress will not be silent.

we the public, we the people developed this drug, we paid for this drug, we led and developed all of the grounding patents to create PrEP, and then that patent has been privatized.

This isn't about you, and I am not here to vilify the work that you have done.

I want to thank you for your leadership.

I also have to give credit to the countless advocates and activists that have been uplifting the issue of the price of Truvada and PrEP.

Finally, let me note that this is a bipartisan issue. HIV has no boundaries.

How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?

This treatment is available in other countries for much, much less. In Australia, patients pay less than $7 a pill.

What Amy says, what Ms. Vilela says is this is a commodity. Her daughter's life was not.

I blame us.

It shows that everyday people, no matter your age or your identity, can make changes.

I blame this body because every single developed country in the world guarantees health care as a right except us...

the existence of these programs happen because of the public, and also we pay when the HIV epidemic gets spread as well.