John Sarbanes: “Actually, at the very point when we have something we can use as leverage to get the higher standard, which is access…”

I thank Representative Ramirez for yielding. I salute the Progressive Congressional Caucus for pulling together this Special Order to talk about the importance of strengthening our democracy. You are absolutely right to begin the…

Last year, as you know, Congress finally--finally, after many, many decades, really--took the historic step of standing up to Big Pharma and enacting policies that are already--we are seeing it--lowering healthcare costs for millions of…

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.

Maryland's total-cost-of-care model also allows our State to invest in other health system goals, like lowering the maternal mortality rate and the opioid overdose mortality rate.