John Boozman

Have we lost a significant barter/able asset that perhaps will diminish the amount of research that we will be able to accomplish in the next 8 or 10 years?

I'm glad that you mentioned that story, because that highlights the terrible problem that we've got and the problem that you face.

Senator Rockefeller described them as despicable and things like that. We would all agree.

Let's not forget that secondary distributors and intermediary drug markets serve a critical role.

So you feel like the alternative wholesalers are stocking the drug to the extent that it's causing a shortage.

Regulations that crowd out smaller actors eliminate choices.

We can address this problem and we should.

We appreciate the community pharmacies so much. In places like West Virginia and Arkansas and much of the country, that is the source of healthcare in very small communities.

If we expect to meet the growing healthcare needs of every American, we need choices.

I thank the Senator for yielding me a few minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Arkansas is recognized. HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES SERGEANT MICHAEL STRACHOTA

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Of the 18 that were reversed, how long did it take to go through the process?

Did you say 18 had been reversed?

We are the only Nation in the world that really does that, you know, that takes such good care of our veterans.

Can we say that you all are committed to helping to work that out where there is a claiming of the cemetery so we can do the appropriate thing?

So, the average of those was 187 days?

Under the new agreement for a limited number of commercial partners under the Space Act Agreements, how will NASA ensure that its safety standards and human readiness requirements will be met by the vehicles being developed?

Do not shortchange the future, you know, as you focus on the present.

That really does seem to be a key in the sense that it has got to be done right.

I hope the President will choose the best prepared and most qualified Commissioner to serve as Chair, when the time comes.

I believe we need to have five active and engaged Commissioners, overseeing the important work of the agency.

My understanding--and this has been misreported--is that both nominees are simply nominated to positions on the Commission.

I just want to real quickly ask, Mr. Coy, we are all really very concerned about veterans being treated unfairly.

We will really need to do something about this.

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Burr. I think it is so important that we are holding the hearing today.