Rand Paul

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

If 90 percent of the myocarditis comes after the second dose, why don't we have a rational discussion about one?

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

I don't like the idea that the people making the decisions in Government are also receiving money and are now conflicted in their interest.

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

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

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

Why would you not want to help us? Why would everybody not want to help us?

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…

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.

While it's politically easy to demonize pharmaceutical companies, Democrats need to remember that this industry bailed us out of the pandemic.

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

Do you believe it creates a conflict of interest for the Government employees who are making money now off of the vaccine to also be dictating the policy about how many times we have to take the vaccine?

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

I think it is a very reasonable position to say kids at risk or have some diseases, that there may be a reason for vaccinating some children.

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.

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…

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…

today, the Senate debates removing the authority of the President to wage war in Iraq. Momentous as such debate might be, it is largely rendered symbolic by the fact that the war in Iraq has been over for more than a decade. Were this body…

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.

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

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.