Jackie Speier

So wouldn't that disqualify him as an armorer, if he had suicidal ideations?

I am not convinced that this is just a Fort Hood problem.

How do we make commanders at Fort Hood and other installations take these command climate surveys seriously?

So one of the shocking things to me was the fact that it wasn't until after Vanessa Guillen's body was located that CID actually went back to the arms room and did a thorough investigation.

The chief investigator in the middle of the investigation of Vanessa Guillen's disappearance was transferred.

The CID detachment received almost no support from their battalion leadership, resulting in an undermanned, inexperienced team investigating a high-profile disappearance.

Trust is paramount for any military unit or organization.

I believe, in the last 2 years' Congress, through this subcommittee, have achieved more for military families than any Congress I am aware of in a long, long time.

We will hold the Army and its leadership accountable.

I promise that I am listening and I will keep listening until every one of these recommendations is implemented.

The Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee will come to order.

Should we be trusting the Taliban with women's rights, human rights, and minorities rights?

Mr. Chairman, I would certainly recommend that if they've already identified that some 60 percent of the veterans from K2 have been identified and have come forward, it would make sense that we should communicate with the remaining 40…

So, the study is going to be--forgive me. I did come late. The study is going to be completed within 180 days or not?

The DOD did not mitigate any risks within the work and living areas of K2, closed quote.

Remediation measures such as, and I quote, covering contaminated areas with clean soil and declaring them, quote, off limits were taken to reduce the risk of these hazards.

I truly value our working relationship and appreciated all that you did on our recent codel to Fort Hood.

In fact, between 2013 and 2015, Novartis' price increase accelerated. It raised the price of Gleevec five times in two years. It turned out to be a 20 percent increase in that drug.

Medicare paid $5.6 billion to your company between 2011 and 2018.

In the last two years of exclusivity you raised the price almost 20 percent.

Gleevec is a miracle drug. My former chief of staff's wife died of CML. Had she lived another couple of years Gleevec would have been discovered as this miracle drug and her condition would have been chronic and she would be alive today.

How much money do you spend on marketing?

If we look at that and then we look at Celgene, which in 2017--in just that one year raised the cost Revlimid 15 percent.

At some point, the Federal Government cannot be the ultimate sucker here.

The United States is the biggest spender, the Government of the United States is the biggest spender of drugs.