I believe I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 7, line 11, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,000,000)''. Page 43, line 15…

I am very much for don't arm.

I think that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been very vocal in wanting us to take a firmer line.

history is fairly clear that safe zones don't work.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan and the gentleman from Ohio for the opportunity to praise our departing House Parliamentarian, John Sullivan, as he prepares to leave the House of Representatives after 27 years of distinguished service…

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.

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. The gentleman from Minnesota has a very good amendment here. Here is what we're talking about. This would strengthen title I by keeping in place the requirement that all public companies…

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.

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

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.

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.