Political Quotes

“I thank both of my friends and colleagues, who are such champions on this underlying issue--the entire issue of Medicare and prescription drug coverage and lowering prices. In fact, as our leader, the Senator from Massachusetts, indicated, this is a measure that is a bipartisan amendment. We have Governors--frankly, the majority of Governors--Republicans and Democrats, who are struggling with this question of lowering prices and making prescription drugs and lower prices available to their citizens. So as the National Governors Association is meeting right now, they have said their biggest challenge is the price of prescription drugs and the explosion, in their budget, of Medicaid. They need to address these issues. This amendment will support the Governors across the country. It is a bipartisan amendment. It is something supported across the country on a bipartisan basis. I am very hopeful that we will have colleagues' overwhelming vote on both sides of the aisle supporting the effort to say yes to this innovation of the States. This is not mandatory, it is purely based on States taking action on their own to decide if they would like to do this. If they do that through their State legislatures and the Governors on behalf of their people, this simply says that this is legal and that, hopefully, it will stop the suits PhRMA has been bringing against our State governments.”