"The Orphan Drug Act has been a resounding success."
"Clinical trials are the bedrock of modern medical product development."
"My feeling is, why should the Federal Government interfere if the patient wishes to spend their own money on experimental treatment plans?"
"I think this makes sense to empower a patient, particularly faced with the dilemma of a terminal disease, to help move the ball down the field in the area of medical science."
"I care passionately about the Medicare program, and I want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to wipe out fraud."
"In time historians may identify this as the moment that America got serious about tackling climate change."
"I have been in Congress for almost 40 years, and for 40 years industry has made doomsday claims that clean air regulations would shut down businesses, destroy jobs, drive prices skyward, and cripple e..."
"Well, these dire predictions never happened. Today House Republicans claim that the Clean Power Plan will cause a surge in electricity bills and effectively end coal use in America. This is just the s..."
"The Clean Power Plan is eminently reasonable and achievable. It gives the States the flexibility to choose how to achieve the reductions."
"If my Republican colleagues have a better idea for protecting our planet for our children and grandchildren, they should speak up."
"Doesn't the EPA, under the Clean Air Act, set standards that States have to meet which affect their energy resources within that State?"
"This isn't a mandate from Washington, how to accomplish the goal. It sounds to me like a mandate from Washington to achieve the goal."