Political Quotes

“this is a very important second-degree amendment that not only will help our seniors be able to lower the prices they pay for prescription drugs, as my colleagues have said. I thank the Senator from Minnesota for his ongoing leadership on this issue and, of course, the Senator from North Dakota for his sponsorship and ongoing leadership and advocacy, as well as my other colleagues who are cosponsoring this amendment. This not only affects our seniors, this affects everyone. It affects the president of Michigan State University, who called me about his health clinics and his college of medicine looking for ways to be able to lower prices so that he does not have to deal with possibly laying off more staff, which he had to do this year as a result of the dramatic increases in the health care costs at the university. It addresses the big three automakers, small businesses, families, and everyone who is paying exorbitant prices for prescription drugs. I want to start by quoting our President, President Bush, when he was a candidate for President. He indicated that he thought this idea was a good idea. He said: Allowing the new bill that was passed in the Congress made sense to allow for, you know, drugs that were sold overseas to come back and other countries to come back into the United States. That was what then-candidate George W. Bush and now President Bush said makes sense. It does make sense. It made sense before.…”