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

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

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.

We can't be a country that encourages citizens and companies to succeed and step up and make a difference and then shames them when they do.

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

I ask unanimous consent that the following letter from the Government Accountability Office be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Decision Matter of: U.S…

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

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

Lives depend upon it.

We should not hate the thought of a person or a company making a profit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are people in this room who would not be alive today were it not for capitalism interfacing with the pharmaceutical and medical device industry that allows you to be alive today.

I rise today to formally enter a legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office into the Record. The contents of this legal opinion confirms that the Biden administration's reckless student loan scheme has gone too far, violated…

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

Is he aware that under current law, when the program goes broke in 9 years, that there will be a 24-percent benefit cut for those who are current recipients?

But do you think it is realistic that he can pay for Medicare, debt and deficit, and also address a 75-year shortfall in Social Security, by only taxing, by only going--the only thing he is going to do is to lay higher taxes on those who…

Now the President, in the past, has proposed increasing taxes on those making over $400,000 to pay for it.

Is he aware that under current law, when the program goes broke in 9 years, that there will be a 24-percent benefit cut for those who are current recipients?

Now the President, in the past, has proposed increasing taxes on those making over $400,000 to pay for it.

That is a lie, because when a bipartisan group of Senators has repeatedly requested to meet with him about Social Security, we have not heard anything on our request.

Of the $4.5 trillion in taxes he has proposed, not a dime is going to shore up Social Security.