Jack Kingston

Reclaiming my time, this helps a lot of people in that 1985 to 2000 and on bracket. There are lots who are not going to be benefitted either way but these people will be helped tremendously.

I have read this amendment and listened to a lot of testimony over the past several years about the need to do this sort of thing in our forests. When you look at the common sense of preserving the life of the forest, the ecosystem and…

This bill is our national environmental policy in many ways because it takes the management of land, the management of resources, policies affecting energy and a number of other issues, and it cobbles together a bill which is truly…

when I was selling football programs at the University of Georgia back when I was in junior high, I was robbed once. Two older kids beat me up and took about $100. I felt humiliated and violated. Victims of crime, and I have talked to many…

I think we need to say a word of thanks to the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), and also to the House Republican leadership for scheduling some hearings on the drug reimportation…

And seniors who have to choose between drugs and food, in many cases they are going without medicine. Prozac went off patent last August; is that correct?

So for $38 billion more in expenses a year, it appears that there was no real difference in public health.

So if I follow the gentleman, it is not going to be a substitute, for instance, Coca Cola with Pepsi Cola, two products that are very similar and neither one would cause any problems. The gentleman is not saying that at all. What the…

may I say the gentleman has brought back his chart on the cost of drugs, and that is an astronomical figure, $1.8 trillion. In fact, there is a book that was written in Georgia several years ago that is called The Coming Economic…

So that is it. I think it is very important because there is this stigma promoted by the name-brand drug companies, and I certainly can understand why they want to do it, but there is a stigma about generic drugs. But getting back to the…

In terms of tort reform, what the drug companies are also telling us is in the two examples the gentleman gave us, if a woman is taking a hormone-enhancing drug and because of research down the road, for whatever reason, that drug develops…

So a patent, if it is gamed properly, it can be a government-sanctioned monopoly for drug companies.

That $1.8 trillion is going to be paid by 70 percent of the people on a fixed income. That is incredible.

I think the patent issue is one that we should discuss. On Glucophage, which is for diabetes, has the 17 years on that patent run out?

I did support the Tauzin bill, the Thomas bill, the one the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) and the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson) and so many others on the Committee on Ways and Means and Committee on Energy and Commerce…

I think we should look at that with a very large magnifying glass because with what we are seeing with corporate greed, and there are a lot of great corporate citizens and CEOs, but the accounting games which seem to have been pulled by…

Now, there is a statistic, though, that the Secretary of Health and Human Services gave to the gentleman and myself recently that 98,000 people a year actually do die from misapplication of prescription drugs, not taking their medicine…

Mr. Chairman, I wanted to enter into a colloquy with the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica). First of all, I wanted to thank the gentleman and the ranking member and all the committee members for what they have done and for the gentleman's…

I believe the last vote we had on this was July 10, 2000, which was, well, 2 years ago today, but at that point out of 435 Members, 363 voted in favor of drug reimportation. And, again, that was July 10, 2000. To make sure folks…

As my colleague knows from the visit, the facility is very dilapidated and soldiers need a little more elbow room, and they do not certainly need to be operating out of a building that is falling apart. Just recently, in fact, they have…

I think it is incredible that at a time when our Nation is at war, when we have suffered one of the greatest domestic tragedies in our history, that a court would be so out of touch with America that they would say this is what we need at…

Finally, this approval process, sometimes it takes as long as 8 years to get FDA to approve a new drug. We should reduce that, particularly for drugs that are often being used in European countries that are already on the market, there is…

I want to say the great advantage of reimportation is not only does it save money now, it does it without a new government program, and it is a market-driven change. The gentleman often quotes Ronald Reagan, who said that markets are…

here is a letter from a woman in Colorado who says that she actually is now getting her Tamoxifen from Canada. It took a little longer to get the prescription filled, but it is $160 savings every 2 months, $80 a month savings. That is a…

there are some companies who are actually leading the way. Eli Lilly, to their credit, has stopped this practice of going to a doctor's office and buying the whole staff lunch for the day, and then leaving them with trays and trays of free…