the President's budget has several bold proposals to build on the Inflation Reduction Act that will hold big pharma accountable.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

I am a very strong supporter of accelerated approval for these very exciting new drugs for Alzheimer's.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.

We can help working families and seniors and the middle class get ahead.

I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics.

as long as I'm chairman of the Finance Committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

CMS appreciates Chairman Wyden's and Chairman Casey's leadership on the critical issue of emergency preparedness in nursing homes.

China continues to put up barriers to American products and American values, while ripping off jobs, using forced labor, and undermining free speech.

When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of prescription drugs; and investing in…

I cannot imagine doing that or privatizing the systems, turning them over to Wall Street or private insurance companies.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

I want to make it clear--and I think colleagues agree with this--the United States of America has got to play offense on international trade.

If Congress fails to act on this front, patients--and especially seniors--will inevitably suffer.

The administration needs to ramp up enforcement of the trade laws that are already on the books--across the board.

I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years.