Diana DeGette

I think everybody on this panel agrees with you when you said that we need to get away from the antiquated production model, which the egg is.

As an example, my home State of Colorado set two records, not good records, this year.

The importance of a strong public health infrastructure cannot be overstated.

Even I had the flu, and I had my vaccine, too.

This year, again, we are experiencing a severe flu season caused by the H3N2.

I am always happy to have this flu hearing, which we seem to do every year.

I have just received a letter from our colleague, Diana DeGette, with a statement from the City and County of Denver...

Well, good news. Four courts have already said that your Department can't stop them from getting abortions.

This seems like an unacceptable intrusion into the attorney-client relationship to me.

These are cruel inflictions from an administration who claims to be addressing the opioid crisis.

As I said in my opening statement, my colleague, Tom Reed, and I have been looking into insulin prices, and I think that our investigation, the facts we've learned, have broad implications from the consolidation issues here today.

Consumers need advocates on their behalf.

Consolidation does not always have to be negative.

When Medicare's expenditures go up, the taxpayers suffer as well.

Excessive consolidation leaves consumers with few choices, which not only limits their care options but also has the potential to raise prices.

It is clear that the delivery of care is changing, and not always to the benefit of patients and payers.

I have got strong reservations about undermining or loosening the DQSA's prescription requirement in any way, given the consideration that any move in that direction could have an impact on patient safety.

As Mr. Green mentioned, he and Congressman Griffith and I worked really hard after that terrible tragedy of the New England Compounding Center to come up with our Compounding Quality Act, which was subsequently folded into the Drug Quality…

If you think that there's more authority this committee needs to give to the agency to bolster that, and if you think there's more resources or stability of resources to do this hiring, let us know, because we--this is one of these…

Now, this was frustrating to all of us because lives were at stake.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. As you know, food safety is not a new issue for this committee.

We are prohibited from using Brownfields money for Superfund cleanup, right?

But they don't always go back in the form of lower drug prices.

But I think the profit has gotten way out of control in many cases. I want to make sure the potential for profit is truly incentivizing innovation, not just lining investors' pockets.

Some do, some don't.