Danny Davis

The drug shortage is a major concern to me, as it should be to all who serve in this body.

As a member that represents over a dozen safety net hospitals in the 340(b) drug discount program, I am extremely concerned about the unsubstantiated suggestions linking 340(b) and drug shortages.

I understand you just cannot get blood out of a turnip.

I always say, you can't lead where you don't go.

I was delighted because it has provided various pathways to accessible health care for the masses.

For many years, I have been an avid supporter and advocate of a national health plan.

For a number of years now, Senator Harkin and I have been working very hard trying to get something passed called Community Choice, which would allow these individuals to live at home and still get the nursing care or the medical care they…

I have always said that Medicaid and Medicare were the best things that happened to health care.

I am always reminded of something Frederick Douglass said when we talk about what we need and what we want.

I think all of us can reflect on September 11, 2001.

I commend the gentlelady for her introduction of this very thoughtful measure, I urge its passage, and yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as she might consume to the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Ms. Hanabusa), the author of this measure.

I commend the gentleman from Massachusetts on this very thoughtful measure, I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he might consume to the author of this measure, Mr. Keating of Massachusetts.

I want to thank the gentlelady for her introduction of this measure. I urge its passage. I yield back the balance of our time.

It is my pleasure now to yield such time as she may consume to the author of this measure, the delegate from Guam (Ms. Bordallo).

I want to thank the gentleman from California for his introduction of this very thoughtful measure. I can't help but recall the fact that I was given a Tuskegee Airmen jacket by the DODO Club, the DODO Chapter in Chicago. I wear it…

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the author of this measure, Representative Adam Schiff from California.

I thank the gentleman for introducing this thoughtful measure and yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the author of this legislation, the gentleman from the Garden State of New Jersey, Representative Steve Rothman.

I am all for everybody having health care. I totally agree with you on that. I think we disagree fundamentally on how you get there.

But if I am dead because I couldn't get health care, can I come to your business?

If you create an opportunity for more than 30 million people in this country to have health insurance... the only business that I could see that gets hurt by this is the undertaker.

There are those who reminded him of people who might have wanted the rain, but without the thunder and the lightning.

I happen to be a practicing Christian, and I notice at my church that everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.