Diana DeGette

Will you please let us know if you start seeing impediments to implementing 21st Century Cures because of this?

So, how are we going to drop two if we are enacting one?

But what the President seems to do is he sort of seems to do this with a meat axe.

A couple of weeks ago, he said he wants to cut up to 75 to 80 percent of all FDA regulations.

I want to talk to you a little bit about some of what President Trump's Executive Orders are doing to the agency and what this will mean for the implementation of 21st Century Cures.

First of all, I would like to add my thanks, Dr. Shuren, for the approval of the artificial pancreas, on behalf of the Diabetes Caucus, but also on behalf of my family because, as you know, my daughter is a type 1 diabetic and will be one…

Over the course of the 113th and 114th Congresses, members of this subcommittee worked to uncover opportunities to strengthen and opportunities to streamline the process by which cures are discovered and then made available to patients.

We are concerned if the Medicaid expansion is retracted, because in those States the Medicaid expansion has helped many people who have--who need to have addiction treatment

If we hope to treat these folks who are getting addicted to opioids, it is important that they have access to medical treatment

But I think you would agree that the amount of fentanyl recovered has been growing exponentially, right?

Yes. I mean, it is really raised--going up in crisis proportions, right?

I think we all agree the amount of fentanyl recovered by American law enforcement has risen from 640 samples tested to 13,000 samples tested in 2015.

I also think we need to find a way to address the treatment side of this epidemic and this is, sadly, where I have significant differences with my majority colleagues.

The opioid epidemic is unprecedented and it is escalating, and I think we all agree that we need a comprehensive strategy to confront it.

The Trumpcare bill this House is being asked to vote on later this week would be the single most devastating piece of legislation to individuals struggling with addiction in our Nation's history.

I think this is another important step that this subcommittee had been taking to address the opioid epidemic, and for the record I want to continue this bipartisan work.

This is a nightmare realized.

Russia's methods of cheating went from abhorrent to something out of a spy novel.

You referred in your written testimony to the Russian cheating scheme as shockingly pervasive.

In the end, what ensued was a muddled process some viewed as sending a very, very weak message to the cheaters.

WADA recommended to the IOC that it prohibit the entire Russian delegation from participating.

Another doping scandal has now shaken the sporting world. This time it involves a wide-ranging Russian scheme to circumvent doping controls relied on by the global sports community to ensure clean sport.

Mr. Wieske, I thought that what Mr. Tonko was asking you was really important, which is with this bill that we are looking at today, there is no requirement that the States not charge people with preexisting conditions.

If you expand Medicaid then you actually are more able to insure the vulnerable.

I don't think the biggest problems facing Medicaid are lottery winners getting Medicaid advantages.