Jamie Raskin

I often share with the public that I was around during the polio vaccine, and I remember political decisions that were made for that vaccine.

We are the world's leader in absolute case count and absolute death count, and we are the world's leader, unfortunately, in COVID denialism and conspiracy theory.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I want to add my thoughts for swift and complete recovery to the President, the First Lady, and the other 43,752 people who contracted COVID-19 yesterday.

Our system is the opposite of a free market. It lets the drug companies increase their prices over and over and over again.

We need to pass the legislation that Elijah Cummings championed and that President Trump used to support before he broke his campaign pledges.

I just think that these NDC blocks were tremendously profitable for Novartis, as they have been for other companies, and the cost is not paid by the company. It is paid by the patients, it is paid by Medicare, and all of us through…

According to the non-partisan CBO, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with drug companies could lower spending on brand name drugs by about $456 billion.

We cannot let these drug companies continue to target our country, the United States of America, for the biggest and deepest price increases anywhere in the world.

Drug companies are hiking their prices higher and higher, and placing an even greater burden on the very patients who rely on these drugs to survive.

And James Madison was very clear about this when he said that those who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

At a certain point earlier in this Congress I looked at the Supreme Court precedent governing contempt of Congress, going back to Anderson v. Dunn.

In just a little example, Copaxone cost our constituents $126 a day, which is four times what it costs in Germany.

Your company has made more than $34 billion--$34 billion--from Copaxone but it reported to the committee that it has spent two percent of that on R&D expenditures for Copaxone patients.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, for calling this extremely important hearing.

This is precisely why we need to give the government and Medicare the power to negotiate for lower drug prices because our patients and our taxpayers are getting ripped off by big pharma.

How can you justify increasing the prices of this desperately needed drug while there have been no investments in scientific research and development while those price increases are being imposed?

But we are told if we put any limits on price increases in America, we will stifle innovation.

The President has failed to fulfill his promise. We are here to keep Elijah's commitment.

Now what Elijah knew is that the only way to really get fair pricing was to have negotiation.

Your companies raised the price of Copaxone 27 different times since bringing it to market more than two decades ago.

We need to make sure that consumers and everyday voices are a recognized constituency group and help build our policy around that.

They are furious about it because they say they deplore his politics, and they don't want to be associated with it.

Thank you, Congresswoman Tlaib. Thank you, Sergeant Taylor.

We must never forget that policing in America started with slave patrols.

Racism is not new to America. It is particularly not new to Black Americans.