Today, pharmaceutical companies are confronting the American people with a terrible choice: Miss rent payments and skip meals to pay for their prescriptions or go without the lifesaving medications that they need.

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

It is outrageous that we still have this practice going on where pharmaceuticals are paying their competitors to keep their products off the market.

both parties here are looking for effective public action to guarantee real market competition.

I am tremendously encouraged to see bipartisan efforts to address these critical needs and to help improve access to affordable prescription drugs for patients.

Product hopping causes patients to overpay by potentially billions of dollars annually for their prescription drugs.

This is not true innovation, and it is costing hardworking Americans.

You can't just do that and expect these healthcare pharma issues to be taken care of without funding those agencies.

I also have worked on that bill with Senator Grassley.

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

I share the concerns of many of my colleagues who have heard from our constituents about a variety of problems that have followed from the transition to pandemic-safe remote work by Social Security.

I would encourage you to try to get an answer to us within the window that the chairman is going to provide for questions for the record.

Have you adapted that for Zoom? I mean, we are adapting everything for Zoom.

Can we change that legislatively? Or is the clock going to run out as you come back to work?

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

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.

I urge you not to overlook the why.

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