Bill Cassidy

It was Republicans who were standing up for the trade unions when in the first week of his presidency, Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline.

I will defer to Senator Markwayne Mullin.

No Company Is Above the Law, The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks.

They are supposed to be treating our energy producers similarly to their domestic. It is clearly not happening

Is it time to review the tariff schedule on the shrimp that is coming from India, and why do we not?

They seem to have a kind of nationalistic viewpoint, in which they are willing to sacrifice efficiency and tolerate corruption

Is it time to review the tariff schedule on the shrimp that is coming from India, and why do we not?

They are supposed to be treating our energy producers similarly to their domestic. It is clearly not happening

In which case they get to set a price, which we may not like, but nonetheless, that is part of the deal.

Yes, I would rather they set price on a drug that exists than have people like my mother-in-law and others who have died of cancer because there is no treatment that exists for them.

Basically, at that point, we waived the white flag and we said to depend upon a Federal Government basic science researcher, and that is not what she or he is interested in, to commercialize or translate the science is not going to happen.

He lamented that Fleming, when he discovered penicillin, didn't seek a patent, saying that if he had, we would have had penicillin 10 years earlier than we finally got it.

I applaud those like Banting, and Best, and others like Maurice Hilleman, who developed vaccine and made them generally available.

I think significantly, is some of us have a hard time understanding how a company that made $21 billion in profit...

I will say for the uninsured, just as a doc who treated the uninsured, it is not just the cost of the vaccine, it is the administration fee.

For decades, this Committee has passed legislation knowing that we would have to ask companies to step up at perhaps a pandemic time.

Basically, at that point, we waived the white flag and we said to depend upon a Federal Government basic science researcher, and that is not what she or he is interested in, to commercialize or translate the science is not going to happen.

In which case they get to set a price, which we may not like, but nonetheless, that is part of the deal.

Yes, I would rather they set price on a drug that exists than have people like my mother-in-law and others who have died of cancer because there is no treatment that exists for them.

I applaud those like Banting, and Best, and others like Maurice Hilleman, who developed vaccine and made them generally available.

He lamented that Fleming, when he discovered penicillin, didn't seek a patent, saying that if he had, we would have had penicillin 10 years earlier than we finally got it.

I think significantly, is some of us have a hard time understanding how a company that made $21 billion in profit...

I will say for the uninsured, just as a doc who treated the uninsured, it is not just the cost of the vaccine, it is the administration fee.

For decades, this Committee has passed legislation knowing that we would have to ask companies to step up at perhaps a pandemic time.

If the purpose of the hearing is to demonize capitalism, we should not hate the thought of a person or a company making a profit.