Most patients are not going to assume that if they don't use their insurance, they'll get a better price.

I'm also very concerned about the problems of gaming the patent system through strategies such as patent thickets and evergreening.

This system is opaque, and the incentives are frequently perverse in drug pricing.

I was very pleased this morning to hear you endorse the prohibition on gag clauses on pharmacists...

To me the question that really is worth discussing is that we have a price risk and we have an infrastructure risk.

But what if I am right, for example, and we get into exports in a big way--the price of gas goes from $2.50 to $6.00, and we are in trouble in New England.

I am gravely concerned that we do not get into exports to the point where it significantly impacts domestic gas prices.

Yesterday the House passed H.R. 8, the Water Resources Development Act, which I proudly voted for. I want to lend my voice in support of this bill and its importance to the State of Maine, which has critical ports and harbors up and down…

I thank my colleague from California for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the rule for H.R. 3 as well as the underlying bill. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I do not believe we should be…

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on roll call No. 240. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes…

I greatly appreciate everybody recognizing the importance of the hardworking folks at the Defense Financing Accounting Services. Lots of our fellow Americans might not realize that DFAS has an incredibly important function to cut the…

It is an honor for me to come to the meeting and join my colleague, Senator Collins in introducing Emory Rounds.

I thank the chairman for bringing this terrific bill to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the unemployment rate in our great State of Maine is 2.7 percent. This is the lowest rate since the 1950s, and jobs, Mr. Speaker, are available everywhere for…

We are also grateful to Chairman Collins, who supports the elimination of the IMD exclusion.

It is clear there is a very serious problem with outlier prescribers.

It claims the lives of almost 120 Americans a day and about one a day in my State of Maine.

I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today about the impact this terrible crisis is having on older Americans.

The opioid epidemic is having a measurable negative impact on the life expectancy of Americans.