When did that realization strike you that you were basically making a drug that some people needed to stay alive?

the challenges associated with developing treatments and the investments we make to develop novel medicines, that is really completely a red herring with respect to Syprine.

I think we have been too aggressive--too aggressive on pricing.

In your thinking about this free market system you are describing, is it a factor of relevance at all that the absence of a drug, a dermatological drug, might cause, you know, a minor concern and the absence of Syprine could lead to liver…

It looks like you might have it right there.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

We want to bring it in connection with the prices for other orphan drugs could be completely unrelated to conditions.

I felt that the concept of health care was forgetting about the person.

How would the U.S. efforts to address China's land reclamation activities in the South China Sea and also to defend freedom of navigation in that part of the world be more effective if the Senate ratified the U.N. Convention on the Law of…

I appreciate your concern about that, and I hope that we might see the advantages of the U.S. taking it up.

The last time I was in China talking at great length about the South China Sea with our counterparts, I said that we are in the ironic situation where the United States has not ratified the Law of the Sea, but we abide by it; China has…

I believe these cuts and assistance send the wrong message about the U.S. interests in the region.

I think DHS has a much more difficult task from day one.

I can't comprehend why the administration would seek to reduce U.S. support for human rights and democracy by 25 percent.

As much as we in politics sometimes rankle under a free press that is free and robust and challenging, we sure would not trade it for anything else.

Madam President, I wish to thank my friend for his comments about addiction. I agree with the Senator from Ohio, talking about the victims from Ohio. I can assure him we have victims in Virginia and all across the country, and we need to…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The Endangered Species Act vests the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service with authority as kind of a backstop in the event that the States don't take adequate measures to protect wildlife species within…