Buddy Carter

the pressure that is on those harbor pilots, in the back of their mind they are going to be thinking about criminal prosecution.

I am very worried about the speed restrictions that are imposed by NOAA's rule that would shut down all these thriving communities and kill our blue economy all up and down the coast.

You stop the ports, and we have major economic problems in my area, not just for the Savannah area, not just for the coast, but the whole southeast United States.

Obviously, making sure that we don't have the ability to slow or damage the recovery efforts.

I have a bill up tomorrow in Full Committee that will prohibit spread pricing in Medicaid.

PBMs bring no value whatsoever to the healthcare system, no value. This is highway robbery.

I think my blood pressure is increased probably 100 points in that period of time.

I think it is incredibly insulting to them and causes them to lose faith in their government...

this administration has been nothing less than an all-out war against fossil fuels.

I have witnessed what has been going on with bloated, and bureaucracies, and it is very frustrating, especially when it comes to energy and climate.

I would submit to you that what is going on in our economy right now is self-inflicted.

In the first two years of the Biden Administration, this government has spent over $500 billion in improper payments.

But we have to take into consideration that we have a lot of poor people.

one of the issues that is most important to me is transparency and drug pricing.

Three companies controlling 80 percent of the market, the vertical integration that exists where the insurance company that owns the PBM that owns the pharmacy...

The attorney general has just recently undertaken a lawsuit against the PBMs, referring to them as gangsters. And that is exactly what they are.

One of the most egregious practices that I ever witnessed in anything was the gag clause that I was able to get passed in legislation to do away with...

If I could, there was a study done--and it is a little aged now, it was done a little bit over a year ago--by the Berkeley Research Group that showed--and listen, and if you remember one thing, then remember this: It showed that only 37…

We all want the same things. Republicans and Democrats want the same thing. We want affordability, accessibility. We want quality in healthcare.

I believe that is the responsibility of the FTC, and I think the FTC has failed, has failed Americans in not undertaking that responsibility.

Absolutely. And I can tell you, again, from experience as a pharmacist, that they don't it--that it decreases adherence, because they don't come back.

I could not disagree more. They do exist, and the witnesses here today have already cited examples of where they exist.

The Biden administration is to be commended for recognizing that disasters exasperate existing inequities and further entrench existing social and economic disparities.

The program needs guardrails. It does not need to be eliminated.

You've seen what's happened in States like Ohio where the Attorney General just recently referred to PBMs as gangsters. And they are.