John Sarbanes

Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans have stood in the way of this.

This is common-sense legislation that would allow Medicare to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers for lower prices.

I think it is a response to the scrutiny that you are under, so it is nice to talk about that...

You better anticipate that that is coming, because the American public is fit to be tied about the high prices of prescription drugs.

Why is it, in a free market economy, in the United States of America, you can't negotiate on behalf of 45 million Medicare beneficiaries for better drug prices?

Honestly, sometimes the immense benefits of solar can seem too good to be true in some of the communities that, frankly, have been targeted for scams, low income communities and communities of color, have been exploited and are often on…

It is a program called the Baltimore Shines program. It helps increase access to solar energy by installing solar panels in underserved communities.

But nevertheless, I don't think it is fair to try to push the blame off particularly onto the PBMs. It is the pharmaceutical companies.

I wanted to just take a moment to address an argument that we heard articulated today by these companies, which is that the pharmacy benefit managers are the ones responsible for these rising drug prices.

If you're fighting with the public health experts, you're politicizing this, and if you're allying yourself with them, then you're depoliticizing it.

That's not a good situation to be in. That's very alarming as we're trying to tackle this pandemic.

Trust of the vaccine will be as important, if not more so, than the safety and efficacy.

I'm very concerned about this decline in confidence we see in the public when it comes to the COVID vaccine.

We have seen the Trump administration... engage in leadership malpractice when it comes to responding to the pandemic.

The attack that is coming with the Supreme Court case in November... is just the latest play out of that playbook.

This has been an obsession with the Republicans for more than ten years.

Can you imagine if the President of the United States in the midst of this crisis had led with all of the efforts that you just described at the national level?

Let's call a spade a spade when it comes to the Republican attacks on the ACA.

That assertion is patently absurd.

Could you commit as well today that you'll give us some data-specific updates on how the efforts regarding the mailed ballots are going?

I'd appreciate that.

We need written policies and directives, not just words.

Yes, sir, we will deploy processes and procedures that advance any election mail in some cases ahead of first-class mail.

Can you commit today to the immediate issuance of a formal USPS policy in writing that will guarantee all delivery of election mail is treated at first class or better for the 2020 general election?

We have a President freely admitting that he is opposed to USPS funding because he's hoping that a hobbled Postal Service won't be able to handle mail ballots.