Diana DeGette

The 340B Program has been a lifeline for providers who care for low-income and vulnerable patients.

Thank you very much, and thank you for all of your efforts and your agency's efforts.

I want to ask you about a specific provision of the discussion draft that allows the FDA to include requirements for the packaging of a drug to help protect children from harm, such as through unit-dose packaging or other requirements.

I really want to thank you for going through regular order with this bill, because I think that this is one of those issues that has really been a bugaboo for a long time.

What this would do is give the FDA new tools to protect consumers.

I would like to thank you for working on this important bill with us.

It has been 40 years that we have had this monograph system, but we haven't really made any updates to it.

I have been an ardent supporter of the 340B program.

I support the intent of the program, but I do believe that more transparency and accountability is required.

The 340B program is needed now more than ever.

I think we can stipulate that 340B is critical to provide critical medical services to low-income people.

But we also can stipulate that we need to make sure that our oversight remains robust.

Thanks to this program, providers across the country have been able to purchase discounted pharmaceuticals and expand and improve their services.

Congress created the 340B drug discount program 25 years ago to help safety net providers leverage their scarce resources to serve more people, especially people in low-income and vulnerable areas.

I just really want to commend all of your states for leaning in, for moving forward on this, and for trying to find robust solutions.

So I wonder if you can just tell me, quite briefly, how Medicaid funds are helping Rhode Island fight this epidemic?

It's called medically assisted treatment, and you're right, counseling has to be an important part of that.

This crisis is really devastating America, as all of us on the dais have seen it play out in our communities, urban and rural alike.

We have been talking a lot today about--at least on this side of the aisle--our concerns about what this TrumpCare bill would do to Medicaid.

What we really worry about is that cybersecurity attacks they're going to come throughout all the government.

The WannaCry cyberattack was really a wake-up call.

Cyberattacks in this sector are unfortunately not a new problem.

The country's vital infrastructure is under attack by actors with malicious intent.

I am the co-chair of the Diabetes Caucus in Congress so that kind of worries me about the insulin pumps.

Every day, our infrastructure is under attack by those with malicious intent.