Rand Paul

If we had a working committee with these four and a few others, I think we would avoid the pitfall of having good intentions and then passing something that does not work, which is a pretty common occurrence in government.

One other item I just wanted to get to was while we all seem to agree on the problem, we all seem to agree on a lot of the solutions, the one thing that sometimes divides us is how we pay for things.

I have been to hundreds of classified hearings and never heard anything classified, and most of the important stuff is already in the newspaper.

We got a bargain here. An expensive bargain? No, a cheap bargain relative to that which it costs us every day.

The only cables we have that are a value we got leaked to us or actually they were declassified by the Trump administration.

There is no moral price. There is no right price.

Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, private industry, American capitalism, things that we had done as a Committee on a bipartisan basis to give tools to FDA and BARDA, the world leading COVID vaccines were developed and distributed in less…

Even in the generic market when we have shortages are not they limited in raising their prices, at least to government and to most insurance policies.

I call up my amendment No. 2, and I ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the amendment will be reported by number. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Paul] proposes…

Even in the generic market when we have shortages are not they limited in raising their prices, at least to government and to most insurance policies.

If you set the price too high, the bread rots on the shelves. If you set the price too low, there is no bread.

Our system thrives on access and innovation. Government bureaucrats don't get to decide whether we have access to medicine.

Do price controls work and do price controls lead to shortages? Yes. Obviously they do.

Democrat proposals typically just shift costs around so that they can mask who pays for what.

If you set the price too high, the bread rots on the shelves. If you set the price too low, there is no bread.

That is not true. And I would like to enter into the record six peer reviewed papers from the Journal of Vaccine, the Annals of Medicine that say the complete opposite of what you say.

Do you think it is scientifically sound to mandate three vaccines for adolescent boys?

It is important for us not to allow rhetoric to distort our analysis of the situation.

We want to look at the--we are talking about grant proposals.

It is important for us not to allow rhetoric to distort our analysis of the situation.

I ask unanimous consent that the following interns in my office be granted floor privileges until May 5, 2023: Andrew Jarocki, Nicholas Sierco, Leon Kamenev, and Henry Beck. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Under this same proposal, we would see at least 15 percent fewer drugs developed and brought to market in the next 17 years.

This is more like a show trial and a public shaming than a fact-finding mission.

COVID-19 cost the U.S. economy an estimated $26 billion dollars a day between 2020 and 2021.

Is there a higher incidence of myocarditis among adolescent males 16 to 24 after taking your vaccine?