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Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to begin by thanking her for her extraordinary leadership on this issue. From the very day that I arrived in Congress, she has been a passionate, articulate, effective voice for…
Mr. President, I thank the Senator for yielding to me. I wish to say how nice it is to see the Senator from Georgia back here with us. It means a lot to all of us to have Senator Isakson back on the Senate floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The…
Mr. President, this is my 163rd ``Time to Wake Up'' speech. I persist in the hope that one day these little water drops will ultimately cut through the stone of fossil fuel intransigence. Last week our new President, Donald Trump…
I do think to what you said very clearly before about not impugning the integrity of the FDA.
Mr. President, there are few moments in the life of a nation when the people are presented with a single choice that directly affects what equality before the law will mean for the next generation. The opportunity to grant a lifetime…
Mr. President, the Senate has decided on a purely partisan basis to resolve the impasse of Judge Gorsuch's nomination by invoking the so-called ``nuclear option.'' For the first time in our history, nominees to the Supreme Court of the…
Antibiotic resistance is described by the World Health Organization as, 'One of the biggest threats to global health.'
I associate myself with the questions and concerns of FDA's role in the opioid epidemic.
for the Senate to act in a responsible way based on the appropriations that were passed last year and move through April without the drama of a government shutdown would be an important thing for us to achieve.
the value of U.S. taxpayer expenditures at the National Institutes of Health for medical research is very great and should not be cut.
The other concern is that there are drugs--and opioids are an obvious example of this--where the issue of them being taken--safe when taken as directed doesn't really address the public health problem related to them because of the danger…
Mr. President, today I am reintroducing, along with Senator Grassley, the Government Settlement Transparency and Reform Act. This bill closes a loophole in the Tax Code that allows corporations to claim tax writeoffs for payments made at…
I worry that having the prescription drug industry fund through PDUFA and the medical device industry fund through MDUFA and nobody having a vested interest in the combined products could lead to a loss of interest in moving the combined…
Last winter we learned of a report out of the DOD that stated that $125 billion could be saved over the course of 5 years by attending to waste within the Department.
In my view, before we make additional acquisition reforms we should see if last year's changes are effective because, frankly, it seems as if current changes may be overwhelming the system.
I think there are certainly valuable lessons that can be learned from it.
In the 1940s and 1950s, almost 40 combat aircraft were competed and awarded, invigorating the industrial base.