Mike Crapo

We are not talking about trying to reduce benefits in Medicare or Social Security for our seniors.

I ask you, Secretary Becerra, to take back to the President my plea that he engage with us in negotiations.

I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability.

Well, thank you. And encourage us as strongly as you can to get that legislatively done.

We are fortunate that in America we are coming up with new, innovative treatments, and we are doing everything we can to accelerate them.

I encourage you to look at this carefully, and if you have not already done it, to conduct an impact analysis.

Without further action, however, these policies will expire at the end of 2024, creating a coverage cliff for tens of millions of seniors across the country.

This administration has taken unprecedented steps to erode this pathway, deterring lifesaving innovation and delaying access to care.

I encourage your Department, Mr. Secretary, to focus on our shared goals, from cost-cutting competition to sustainable telehealth access.

The Federal Government should focus on supporting States as they work to return Medicaid to post-pandemic normalcy.

This unbalanced approach does nothing to address Medicare's cost drivers.

Government price mandates, however, are a step in the wrong direction.

Instead of turning to a one-size-fits-all solution, we should look to proven models for Federal programs, such as Medicare Advantage.

I want to make it very clear. The Republicans are asking for negotiations on the debt ceiling process, to add some fiscal restraint into the debt ceiling extension.

I would just encourage all of my colleagues in the Senate, but particularly the President, to engage with us in those kinds of negotiations.

I want to make it clear. We are not talking about trying to reduce benefits in Medicare or Social Security for our seniors.

Respectfully, however, an American trade policy cannot rest on massive spending on subsidies.

The administration should accordingly partner with Congress and the American people, not try to cut us out, because under the Constitution it cannot.

Respectfully, an American trade policy cannot rest on massive spending on subsidies. That approach borrows more from China's traditions than ours.

American trade policy unleashes our people's talent and productivity by removing foreign barriers through tough negotiations and enforcement.

Judge Brailsford represents the best our State has to offer.

I thank all of the Members of the Judiciary Committee.

I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability.

I ask you, Secretary Becerra, to take back to the President my plea that he engage with us in negotiations.

We are fortunate that in America we are coming up with new, innovative treatments, and we are doing everything we can to accelerate them.