The Budget builds on the Inflation Reduction Act's new Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program by increasing the number of drugs subject to negotiation.

For the PBM, pharmaceutical benefit managers, they are basically middlemen right now, as we are reducing price.

Medicare Advantage is a critical choice for seniors in West Virginia, 43 percent, and it is growing every year.

I hope they would move quicker, I think that state primacy issue is absolutely critical to move forward, to cleaner environment, to capturing, and sequestering, and utilizing the carbon.

The amount of money that we were able to save by negotiating on certain drug prices, that money is being able to help bring down prices.

I went through a water crisis with heavy chemicals in my own municipal system.

I applaud it. I have been complaining for years that we can't get this level.

So the IRA will directly cause closures of natural gas and coal powered plants in all certainty.

I was proud to support the Inflation Reduction Act, to finally allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs.

I really believe that in my heart.

Thanks to our efforts, this year's Medicare Trustees Report estimated that the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund has been extended by 3 years--until 2031.

It is interesting that you would phrase it that way, because my understanding is that there have been clinical trials, that there is science-based evidence, that this does move the needle.

To me it is just mind boggling in this time of fiscal restraint where people are really watching their dollars, this kind of overreach and overspending.

I need to see the list.

I just think we have to be really careful what we tell the Americans.

What I am really looking for is some substantive feedback on how we can improve the Section 7 process.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I have really hard concerns about the ESG because if ESG is not taken with the same light that, basically, geopolitical unrest that we see around the world, you are putting us in a very unfair advantage--or disadvantage--can be very…