"I have a bill that would finally give the public access to this information, H.R. 820, the DATA Act."
"I would like to ask unanimous consent that a statement prepared by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter be included in the record."
"You have done a wonderful job at the FDA, and your responses to questions from both sides of the aisle have been very, very thoughtful."
"I think it is essential that the drug bear a prominent statement describing the abbreviated pathway by which it came to market."
"Last Congress we passed the GAIN Act to provide new incentives for the development of important antibiotics."
"So tell us how to change this economic model. You talked about that in your presentation."
"We have given tax credits. We want to shorten the time at FDA to get this review done as quickly as possible to get the drug out there."
"Well, I would suggest that we may be better off putting much more money into biomedical research at NIH and throughout universities around the country because they don't have the profit motive and wha..."
"I don't think Mr. Outterson or I thought or would want anybody to believe that we thought you don't need a profit and you don't need the private enterprise."
"We want to make sure they get a profit so that we want to guarantee we could take their investment, guarantee a certain percentage, and say that is how much the government will pay you."
"I believe a lot more in public investment because the pharmaceutical engineers are not going to make a lot of investment in this area when their research investments can result in a blockbuster drug."
"I support oversight of the FCC, which is a small but critical agency charged with overseeing industries that make up nearly 1/5 of our National economy."