10/04/2017
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"We have to find ways to bring down the cost of prescription drugs and the National Academies recommends that the Federal Government negotiate prices directly with drug companies. I agree."
"Cures also fell short in a really big way, and that's on funding."
"Frankly, it didn't even come close, and that's why today we're reintroducing the National Biomedical Research Act, which provides $50 billion in new funding for the NIH and for the FDA."
"I led Democrats on this Committee in calling for an extra $50 billion for the NIH and the FDA."