"We have serious concerns about the potential adverse economic and employment impacts of these types of measures."
"We want a healthy environment for our children, grandchildren, and their children."
"One of the reasons it is difficult to do that is because these industries have a lot of influence on how policy gets made."
"I think many of our constituents would say that, too often, Congress is leaning in the direction of the big money and the special interests and away from the interests of the broad public."
"We need to try to address that and break those dependencies."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the panel for your testimony. Very important pieces of legislation that we are discussing today. All have earned bipartisan support for obvious reasons, given ..."
"I appreciate that. Just to close, I would say that, within that larger construct, it can be frustrating sometimes."
"What worries me is this is all part of a campaign by the GOP and the right wing to work the refs--complaining of non-existent bias to force and over correction."
"But what is really frustrating to me about today's inquiry is that my Republican colleagues know there are plenty of other kinds of investigations that we should be undertaking in this Congress but th..."
"Thank you for your work to implement 21st Century Cures, which obviously as you know is a point of real pride for this committee."
"I commend you for that. I have just introduced in the last few days something we are calling the biosimilars competition act."
"Based on the experience with what happened with some of the 21 States last time and the way the alert was given but then it seemed like the Federal folks, in a sense, kind of walked away from the ente..."