Jamie Raskin

I think what we are trying to figure out is precisely what are the various public and private ingredients that go into our pharmaceutical system.

Okay. And you are choosing now to donate some drugs rather than reduce drug prices.

So while we can't imagine this is some kind of Ayn Rand fantasy where the private sector did it all on its own, right?

Did you use those same political factors in setting the price for Truvada?

I think it's very important that you consider the access question.

Do you think it is inappropriate in a constitutional democracy where the public invests in scientific and medical research...

But that is your business model that you've described this as capitalism, and that's what capitalism----

His view is preposterous. It--there aren't words for what a frivolous assertion that was.

So if we did a thorough investigation of Defense Department contractors, you're saying we would find other businesses that are essentially taking the taxpayers for 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 percent profits on the products that are being sold…

So you're defining capitalism as one business can basically charge the taxpayers whatever it wants, 50 percent, 100 percent, 500 percent, 1,000 percent, that's what capitalism is?

At quarterly meetings, Nick Howley, management, gave a wink-wink, nod-nod that we want to avoid disclosing any cost data.

There really are two Americas now. There's the America that we all represent, where we know there to be homeless veterans and people going bankrupt because they can't afford to pay their medical bills; diabetics rationing their insulin…

Thank you, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. And you speak for all of us there.

And I want to bring attention to the fact that, in the ADL's report, 2,040 of the 16,149 reporting agencies, less than 13 percent, reported one or more hate crimes to the FBI.

We know from the Mueller report that there was a sweeping and systematic campaign by Russian operatives to destabilize and change the course of the American election.

The Congress has to guarantee to the people of the States a Republican form of government.

Congress has to guarantee to the people of the States a Republican form of government.

It seems as if the cyber age has made political democracy more vulnerable, and our elections more susceptible to attack and manipulation.

We're excited about putting together this package of proposals which go further even than the excellent legislation that Congresswoman Norton advanced during the shutdown.

We're learning a lot from this hearing and from all of the contacts.

I want to thank you for your leadership in calling this hearing, and bringing us together as a DMV delegation.

I'm very excited about putting together this package of proposals which go further even than the excellent legislation that Congresswoman Norton advanced during the shutdown.

The disruption caused by the last shutdown in Maryland was profound and comprehensive.

To exercise the most fundamental right that we have, which is to vote.

We don't believe that anyone should have to pay a cent in order to vote.