the good news of his budget has been lost in a lot of the misperception.

As a former prosecutor I know that the first responsibility of government is to protect our citizens.

Late last year, the AARP released a report that showed that while the Nation was in a recession... brand-name drugs were seeing some of their highest price increases in years.

But that is not the way it is, and that is not the way it was designed in the prescription drug law of 2003.

Do you think the price of those drugs... are going to go up?

I thought in Economics 101, the free marketplace, competition, supply and demand, I thought we learned that the more that you bought in bulk, huge purchases, the more negotiating power that you had.

Our children are our most precious assets. We say it over and over again; we want to do everything we can to protect them.

Naturally, the consternation of not knowing if this is a cancer cluster has disrupted the lives of thousands of people.

The Federal Government should take a larger and more proactive role in these complex and highly technical investigations because it has the expertise to lend a hand with detailed and sophisticated analysis.

for seven plans we reviewed, the average negotiated price for the cancer drug Gleevec increased by 46 percent from about $31,000 in 2006 to more than $45,000 in 2009.

In the Senate-passed healthcare bill, the amount of the rebate for brand-name drugs is being increased for Medicaid from 15 percent to 23 percent.