Political Quotes

“Again, I appreciate my colleague coming down to the floor, especially when, in his opening statement, he says he wants drug costs to go down now. It is not going to happen now because it is in a package that is not going to be accepted by the Senate and the President is not going to sign. So, if we really want drug prices to go down now, we would have done what we did out of the full committee. We would have packaged this up with H.R. 965, the CREATES Act, which is a bipartisan agreement that is part of this bill, which would penalize branded drugmakers that withhold samples from generic manufacturers. We would have brought to the floor, either separately or in a package, H.R. 1499, the Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act, bipartisan out of the committee. This would ban pay-for-delay agreements, which are a problem. And we would have brought up H.R. 938, the Bringing Low-cost Options and Competition while Keeping Incentives for New Generics, which is called the BLOCKING Act, which would limit the first-approved generic maker's ability to stall another rival's launch. I think we all want to get there. I think we will get there. We still are going to go through this process. But, make no mistake, this is not going to be signed into law that we can go down to the White House for a ceremony.…”