This legislation addresses product hopping, a particular abusive form of conduct used by drug manufacturers to extend their monopolies.

to explicitly prohibit healthcare mergers that enable greater exploitation of existing market power and are likely to result in harm to consumers.

First, I would suggest negotiation of drug prices under Medicare, a bill that I lead with Representative Welch.

We need to get that done immediately. That will add significant resources to the two agencies, plus the appropriations policy.

I am also pleased to be in partnership with Representatives Johnson and Issa in a House companion to a bill.

We also need to enhance and improve the laws with regard to our power of enforcement.

thank you for your testimony that I think really helped to inform the work of this Committee

Well, you could, I think, help us if you could make a recommendation, again in the QFR window of this hearing.

I am here to speak on the upcoming methane Congressional Review Act matter and speak in support of overturning the Trump misrule regarding the problem of methane emissions. Let's just start by setting the stage that about one-quarter of…

I think in North Carolina you actually have some real evidence of what happens when a law is impose and then again when it is taken off.

I urge you not to overlook the why.

The Trump administration over and over again failed to follow science and tried to replace people who understood science with people who were shills for polluting industries.

if at the end of the day, nobody understands the cause of all of this, you haven't done your jobs.

Thank you, Chairman.

predatory lending is fundamentally, structurally different than responsible lending. High-cost lending turns incentives on their head, so that lenders succeed when borrowers fail.

Well, thank you very much, Director.

CBO aspires to, and must maintain a non-partisan, independent, and reliable record on the Hill.

90 percent of them said that they thought payday lending was a bad thing.