John Sarbanes actually said...

This is a historic day and I want to congratulate the District of Columbia.

It is up to us here, who are the ones at whom those efforts are being directed day in and day out to take action to diminish undue influence...

by definition, monopoly industries have unlimited resources to sustain the monopoly with political power.

Nobody has manipulated that more effectively than the pharmaceutical industry in the ways that you just described.