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Dutch-American politician and diplomat (born 1953)
Fifty-two percent. One of my pharmacists called me this morning, and he is outraged because he opens his morning newspaper, and he is seeing this ad and says, how do I compete? And I said, I want you to do a press conference with me next…
Lipitor, save 43 percent. The average U.S. cost is $288. Our price is $165. Neurotonin, you have got all these down, but average U.S. cost $130. Our price $78.
This affects the ability of GM to sell cars in Europe. This affects the ability of GM to sell cars in the United States against cars that are made in Europe by companies who are providing benefits to their workers. And we are subsidizing…
There is no reason drugs cannot cross borders safely. We have food that crosses borders safely, and there is no reason we cannot develop a system to maintain the integrity of prescription drugs as they go from Canada into the U.S. and…
Just think, the numbers and the examples you are using, a conservative estimate says rather than the U.S. price being 20 times what they might be able to get it somewhere else, let us say U.S. companies could save, 25, 30 percent. For a…
But just the sheer difference between these, for $5 in Germany to $100. The thing is, for anybody who has traveled, you typically do not go to an airport and expect best prices. It would be interesting what would happen if you went to a…
Let us run this by again. $100 in the U.S. and $5 in Germany. This may be one of the bigger differentials of the drugs that you bought.
What does she do that would get her thrown into jail? Going to Canada or going to Mexico or going to Europe is not illegal to buy these drugs, is it?
Whether it is from the Swiss or Spain or Canada or the U.S. Again, I am assuming many times that that product is going to be built in a factory perhaps even in the United States; or a single or a couple of factories are going to supply the…
I am assuming that the differences in price between the U.S. and Canada or the U.S. and Europe are not that significant. You would think that with the trade agreements and those types of things that we have that there would be some…
I think you have just given me more information on Coumadin than I would like to have. I really did not want to know all of that. Let us just talk about the price.
We pay the highest prices. We do the development, the testing, we do all the market research and all of that here in the United States. We are the largest market. These drugs are made here, and we pay the highest prices.
If my colleague will explain to me, many of these drugs are manufactured in the U.S. We are the largest market in the world for most of these prescription drugs. One would think in the largest market in the world, and when the drugs, many…
That is what is coming down the road. It has been a growth industry. It is going to continue to be a growth industry. I am optimistic with the kind of support that we have for the bill on a bipartisan basis, we have had a coalition of the…
This is why Federal employees support us as well. What may happen is the Federal Government may decide to outsource and contract out certain things, and the winning contractor may be Federal Prison Industries.
If Federal Prison Industries makes it, they can demand that that housing project... buy from them, no matter what else they get.
That is right. Exactly. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), he has been just a yeoman on this for the last 5 years. But what really got him interested was a small company in his district which made a very specialize product, missile…
You say, well, why do the Federal procurement officers not support your bill? You know what? They do. Because as this Congress asks different agencies to do more with less, the Federal procurement officers come back and say, hey, we can…
I support the Federal investment in meeting the education needs of all of our Nation's children with disabilities. Support this amendment.
I would once again like to congratulate the Grand Valley State University Lakers. They have had an awesome year. Today we recognize them and congratulate them for that performance. I would extend to the President a request that he invite…
Nine rangers, along with some Border Patrol, who have pretty much single-handedly stopped over close to three-quarters of a million pounds of drugs, 700,000 to 750,000 pounds of drugs, in a single year.
I think what my colleague points out is the fallacy in this process if we increase over the President's spending.
There are about 10 different steps, and a Washington bureaucrat telling us how to spend the money. Quite often when we go through that process they tell us what to do and it is going to cost $2 million, $3 million, but they do not give all…
The end result is the shared vision that we have with the President, that we have with our Speaker, and with the chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce to make sure we leave no child behind; that every child in America…
I want to really reinforce the point my colleague made, which is that this system shrinks the taxpayers' dollar; that when we put a dollar at the top of that funnel, by the time it gets down to the student, that dollar has shrunk from $1…
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