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Anna Eshoo

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Anna A. Eshoo is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 16th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been an advocate for various issues including healthcare, technology, and environmental protection. Eshoo has played a significant role in shaping policies related to telecommunications and has been involved in efforts to improve access to healthcare for her constituents.

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Jan 29, 2018

Here it is, the second decade of the 21st century, and too many Americans cannot fully participate in modern life, because they do not have a robust broadband connection.

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Jan 29, 2018

Obviously, we need to do everything we can to protect patient safety, so that these incidents stop happening.

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Jan 29, 2018

If the infrastructure is not there, it is going to be incredibly costly to get the infrastructure there.

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Jan 29, 2018

The Community Broadband Act and the Climb Once Act both ensure that communities are empowered to create their own municipal broadband networks.

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Dec 12, 2017

the United States of America and its genius has produced lifesaving drugs not only for people in the United States but for people around the world.

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Dec 12, 2017

We have to answer for what the costs are in the system that we oversee.

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Dec 12, 2017

It would be nice if we could come up with a simplified system for drug pricing and perhaps this hearing will begin that.

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Dec 12, 2017

High drug prices are really at the top of the mind of our constituents and we've seen recent examples of extreme bad actors raising prices purely for profit motives.

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Dec 12, 2017

Because of the leadership of this committee, CMS has announced a plan change to that as of January 1.

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Dec 12, 2017

That's not a Republican issue, a Democratic issue. It's there for a very good reason.

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Dec 12, 2017

Congress does need to review and better understand drug pricing to ensure that we are incentivizing research and innovation and development of new drug treatments and cures without creating loopholes that can be taken advantage of.

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Dec 12, 2017

This is crying out for reform. This is crying out for reform.

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Dec 12, 2017

Congresswoman Eshoo and I worked together several years ago to get a biosimilar title in what's now called the Affordable Care Act.

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Dec 12, 2017

It's important that the work not only begin here but that the Members are responsible for shaping a policy.

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Dec 12, 2017

We need an approach that focuses on the patient and the cost to the health care system, which will be tethered by ensuring that there is sufficient competition in the market place.

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Dec 1, 2017

Last week, FCC Chairman Pai circulated his plan to extinguish the most important technological achievement in modern history: the free and open internet. His plan guts the 2015 open internet rules and removes the FCC as the cop on the beat…

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Nov 29, 2017

NIH stands for our National Institutes of Hope.

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Nov 29, 2017

I just rolled my eyes, because we wouldn't have a drop of oil left in that strategic reserve if everything that claims to be funded by it were actually funded.

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Nov 29, 2017

Under the original legislation, the 21st Century Cures Act, H.R. 6, that the House passed, and we are celebrating its first anniversary today, the funding was mandatory.

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Nov 29, 2017

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule, and I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so that the House can vote on my bipartisan legislation, the Presidential Tax…

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Nov 29, 2017

Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act... established a priority review voucher.

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Nov 29, 2017

The Republican tax bill cuts the tax rate for so-called pass-through businesses, which is how many of the Trump family's businesses are structured, including hotels, golf courses, and real estate developments. Specifically, the tax rate…

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Nov 28, 2017

the privacy protections were ripped away from the internet.

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Nov 28, 2017

the American consumer, I think, has really been hammered as a result of it.

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Nov 15, 2017

Wireless providers have been accused of redlining certain neighborhoods, a practice that obviously exacerbates the digital divide.

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