I think we are losing about $1 billion a year, honestly, on the drug plans offered by the pharmacy benefit managers.

I am not convinced. I am not convinced.

But, let's face it, there are so many drug company lobbyists up here that that bill didn't have a prayer, because the pharmaceutical company lobbyists outnumber Members of Congress probably 7 to 1.

When you allow a company to create a product that is so powerfully addictive that in a very short time they create customers for life, that is a very troubling situation.

OxyContin is so powerful, it is so powerful that in a very limited period of time a person who is prescribed this becomes addicted.

We are creating a national healthcare system that will allow all of these people to continue to financially get the support from these pill mills.

I sponsored legislation here in Congress several years ago to remove OxyContin from the market.

It is bizarre, it is obscene in a way, that folks go to work every day sometimes in dangerous industries, and because of the lack of protections, they don't come home.

I was thankful every single day that I went to work that I had a union watching out for me.

You would think from the discussion here today that maybe 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent of today's workers are unionized.

There has to be some accountability here.