Political Quotes

“reclaiming my time, you should take a little solace in the fact that they have decided to go to scare tactics because they know this is not about price controls. This is about letting the market determine the price that we can pay, and they are scared of the free market. This is a large company that has a captive market and is scared of the forces of the free market to determine the best price. So they have decided to through a few Members try to play the worst and ugliest of politics because on the merits they cannot win it, and I compliment you for having the courage to stand by your principles. I would like to make a note to something earlier that our good friend the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) said which deals with the fact that we are Democrats and Republicans here. We give different views on different subjects, but the fact is what has brought us here is our common principles and our common values, and this is a bipartisan issue because we jointly think that our seniors should not be paying the highest price, and our taxpayers should not be asked to pay the highest price when you can get lower prices. As our colleague from Minnesota showed with that chart, although people cannot see the specific numbers, they get the basic gist that there is a 700-buck spread for the same drugs you buy in Germany versus what we buy here. You do not have to have a party difference to understand it is fundamentally wrong.…”