Frederica Wilson

H.R. 3 would ensure drug companies charge a fair price to patients while protecting access to lifesaving drugs and innovation.

Prescription drug prices are out of control. More than $450 billion across the health care system or about $1,100 per person is spent every year.

If I am on super-expensive meds, I am hurting my company's bottom line in the end. I would choose a different medicine if there was one that was significantly lower in price.

we are terrified for him to change jobs because we cannot afford my medication if it is not covered. He has had to turn down a better paying job with better hours in order to keep our insurance.

We cannot allow them to get richer while Americans across this country risk their health under the weight of unaffordable drug prices.

Simply put, medicines are of no use if those who need them cannot afford them.

Okay. Now we expect this bill to have--to greatly reduce cost for patients and tax payers.

Here is what people are saying. I heard some of it today. It is socialism.

Earlier this year, as the Chair Bonamici talked about, we passed a bipartisan, again POWADA, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.

As an example, we have Deborah Jeffries, who has been a cocktail server at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino benefitting from a union contract through Culinary Union 226.

Listen, earlier this week this Committee in a bipartisan manner passed the Older Americans Act, which provides critical nutrition, legal, and transportation services for older Americans.

Congestion has negatively affected our constituents as never before, not to mention the quality of air we breathe.

This is nothing short of a congestion tax.

I am honored to introduce my personal mayor, the mayor of the great city of Miami Gardens.

Excessive tolls raise significant equity questions, of course, particularly the impact on low-income drivers.

Experiences of discrimination based on race, national origin, or other forms of discrimination add to the cumulative adversity and put those individuals at greater risk of health and--mental health and behavioral social risks.

We will fight for you and all Americans who want to exercise their rights to negotiate for better pay and working conditions.

Instead of pointing to market forces and ceding influence to corporations, it is time that Congress stepped forward, protect our economy, protect those employees.

Protecting the right to organize is critical for reversing decades of wage stagnation and income inequality.

Rather than working to strengthen the right to organize in this changing economy, corporate interests and their allies in the Trump administration are exploiting weaknesses in this outdated law to aid their assault on workers' rights.

That is a crisis, a crisis that will only grow worse if this government continues to turn a blind eye or, even worse, continues to roll back protections for workers; and no one in this country will feel that pain more acutely than contract…

As chairwoman of the Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, I rise today to urge my colleagues to unanimously pass the Butch Lewis Act of 2019. Failure to do so will have dire consequences for at least…

Unions are essential for there to be dignity in the on the job.

I remind my colleagues that pursuant to committee practice, materials for submission for the hearing record must be submitted to the committee clerk within 14 days following the last day of the hearing, preferably in Microsoft Word format.

It is amoral that millions of people in this country are forced to work so hard for so little in return. Believe me, Congress knows, because there is a serious bipartisan movement afoot to provide Members of Congress with a cost-of-living…