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Rick Allen is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he has focused on issues such as economic development, job creation, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. Allen has been active in promoting policies aimed at supporting small businesses and enhancing the local economy in Georgia.
Seniors pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world, and the adversaries, the people who are trying to keep them paying the highest prices in the world, is the pharmaceutical industry. The trouble is they are not citizens, it is…
I was reminded how proud I am of my home State of Maine, which has taken a different tact. Basically what the State of Maine did in the last legislative session through the leadership of Chellie Pingree, a State Senator, Mark Lawrence who…
What we are doing in Maine is interesting and exciting. The 2002 elections will be the first where we have what we call the Clean Elections. The bill has been upheld by the court. Candidates for the State legislature and candidates for…
I turn now to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Thurman) who has been working so hard on this issue working in the Committee on Ways and Means and in her own district to try to lower the costs of prescription drugs for seniors.
Those stories are legend. I have these letters from women who say I do not want my husband to know, but I am not taking my medication, because he is sicker than I am, and we cannot both afford to take the medications that our doctors tell…
The situation gets worse year by year. If we think the situation is bad now, spending on prescription drugs is going up 15 to 18 percent year after year after year. The problem on average will be 15 to 18 percent more a year from now than…
No one has worked longer or harder on this issue to try to get some fairness for seniors, trying to stop price discrimination and get to a Medicare benefit.
All across this country, seniors are finding it harder and harder to take their prescription drugs, because they simply cannot afford to take the medication that their doctors tell them they must take. They are not following doctor's…
To some extent. Certainly some veterans get their prescription drugs free through the Veterans Administration. It does not apply to all veterans, but it does apply to some. There are some benefits for veterans, that is true.
All across this country, as we speak, seniors are not following their doctors' orders. Some of them have been given prescriptions which they cannot afford to fill. Others have filled prescriptions which they cannot afford to take as…
Education is simply too important in this country to leave it to someone else. We all have to participate. We all have to participate in fighting crime, and that is what we did when we asked for 100,000 new police on the streets, and we…
I believe that in this, as in many other areas of law, that the law, the standard, will be developed. It will be developed by the FEC, it will be developed by the courts over time until we have a fairly clear understanding of what that…
Mr. Chairman, the Togus, Maine VA Medical Center has been recognized in the past as a center of excellence. Now, however, the Maine delegation is hearing continual complaints from Veterans that they are having to wait longer for…
Waiting for duplicate studies before we act will only achieve further delay in the agency's efforts to address the risk from mercury exposure. We know there is a link between mercury emissions from power plants and the contamination in our…
I absolutely agree with the gentleman that there has got to be a connection between the candidate and the district. That is very, very important.
The point the gentleman makes is actually the right point, because nothing that happened in that election broke existing law. The fact is that the gentleman would like to change the law as with respect to labor dues. So he would seek to…
We are trying to break the link, because as the Supreme Court has said on several occasions, we can, this Congress can enact reform in order to prevent appearance of corruption or corruption. What the Court has also said in another case is…
Last February, freshmen Democrats and freshmen Republicans agreed to create a task force on campaign finance reform. We were all veterans of targeted races in 1996. We saw firsthand the explosion of soft money in issue advocacy. We know…
Never before, that in the past the rule has been that before you can subpoena that information or before you could release information which is gathered in the course of a committee investigation, you would need either the consent of the…
I am happy to work through those issues with my colleague. It is certainly not our intent to hold the comptroller of any institution liable. We have felt that this amendment would apply only to for-profit institutions and not to any public…
I do believe in the United States Constitution, and I think sometimes that the Republican majority in this House thinks that the U.S. Constitution is a draft document that needs constant revision. Our Founding Fathers set up a document…
We have got to change it, and I think I agree with the gentleman from Arkansas. If we spend as a body, if this Congress spends 2 years and millions and millions of dollars investigating what happened in 1996 and we do nothing, no reform…
In a nutshell, what the Republican leadership is trying to do is to place restrictions on and to gag people who contribute a few bucks a month for political activities that are not just activities related to Federal candidates, but just…
We need a campaign finance reform bill on the floor of this House in March. It should be a bipartisan bill. The Republican majority has been questioned as to whether or not they are really serious about campaign finance reform, but there…
The American people care about this issue. They are not going to let it go and we cannot let it go. We have to do something about it, and we need to do something about it in 1997.
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