My remarks will be brief. I just want to thank the chairman, Senator Wyden, of the Finance Committee, for his commitment and for his leadership on these issues. I look forward to working with him to expand access to primary care in America…

Let me begin by thanking Chairman Wyden for his leadership on the need to fundamentally reform our Nation's organ transplant program. I share his concerns. A 2020 bipartisan Finance Committee investigation that Chairman Wyden co-led with…

Year after year, with very little debate, we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into the military-industrial complex. This year, it is about $900 billion. While defense contractors make huge profits, while the Pentagon remains unaudited…

But what I have seen is, in particular in the drug industry, an abuse by patent holders of that period of exclusivity.

It is really important, your responsibility, to have patents issued timely, appropriately, for innovators.

my colleague the Senator from Arizona speaks and spoke with the authority of a person who committed his life, before he came to the U.S. Senate, to the service of our country in the military. I do not speak with that authority. I speak…

I don't get it where you get a patent, let's say for 20 years and it goes on for 30 years or 35 years.

And where you have a patent system that can be abused by the patent holders, and they go beyond the period of exclusivity, it is brutal on the cost of healthcare for American employers.

What is the ability and the commitment of the Patent Office to stop the extension of that period of exclusivity and monopoly power that has been so consistently abused by the drug companies to rip off American taxpayers, American…

House Republicans are fulfilling our commitment to our country's veterans by fully funding veterans' healthcare programs, veterans' benefits, and Veterans Affairs programs in the fiscal year 2024 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs…

There are no two stronger champions of the intellectual property rights of innovators and patent holders than the two leaders of this Committee, Senator Coons, Senator Tillis, and I support your efforts in that respect.

What is the ability and the commitment of the Patent Office to stop the extension of that period of exclusivity and monopoly power that has been so consistently abused by the drug companies to rip off American taxpayers, American…

I don't get it where you get a patent, let's say for 20 years and it goes on for 30 years or 35 years.

It should be a fundamental right for farmers to protect their livestock when threatened by predatory actions of black vultures.

I was proud to introduce the Black Vulture Relief Act of 2023 with my friend from Florida, Representative Darren Soto.

I want to just stress how important this issue is to cow-calf producers and livestock producers all across the country.

It is really important, your responsibility, to have patents issued timely, appropriately, for innovators.

There are no two stronger champions of the intellectual property rights of innovators and patent holders than the two leaders of this Committee, Senator Coons, Senator Tillis, and I support your efforts in that respect.