Gilbert Gutknecht: “we have plenty of examples. Before the gentleman goes, one of the issues that I briefly referenced in my opening remarks…”

“we have plenty of examples. Before the gentleman goes, one of the issues that I briefly referenced in my opening remarks was that up until the last several days I have been very hesitant to criticize the pharmaceutical industry because in many respects they did not create this system; Congress did. They did not allow this system to perpetuate. It was the FDA and the Congress that did. But recently they have begun what I think is an unethical strategy to try and scare seniors, to scare consumers, to begin to get them to believe that the problems that would be created by this legislation are insurmountable. And to the gentleman's credit, the gentleman has had the courage to fight back. Because they have started to run ads on radio, they started to do mailings to our seniors, they are making phone calls to our seniors, they are mailing to pro-life groups; and that is where I get back to this point. If you tell something that is not true and you know it is not true, that is a lie. And I think sometimes here in this city we have to call an untruth a lie.”