This is really about life and death.
I am as concerned about our Nation as I have ever been.
Last year in this setting I asked you about the CPTPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.
We share that view of Ambassador Beasley, and we hope that is exactly the same with Ambassador McCain.
I hope this is the evidence that I expect it to be of the amount of cooperation on both sides of the aisle, in the effor...
I would use this opportunity to express my gratitude for the leadership of Ambassador Beasley.
When you say, 'We have moved on', we should not have moved on. And we should reengage.
We are entering the most exciting time of biomedical innovation and advancement in American history.
But something needs to be change at the State Department and Consular Affairs.
This committee has acknowledged, as well, that there is a need for the funding for that stockpile to be increased.
Americans enjoy unprecedented access to new, novel treatments.
I agree that charging Americans $130 for this vaccine is outrageous.
However, this progress will be erased if Congress passes government drug price controls.
I joined Senator Michael Crapo, R-Idaho and my colleagues in introducing the Lower Costs, More Cures Act.
We got to be careful we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Democrats proposed price controls for prescription drugs could mean postponing a cure for Alzheimer's disease by decades...
I bet you expected when you invented this vaccine, you would come to Congress and get a hero's welcome.
