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Now, virtually every study I have seen, independent studies, say that Americans are paying at least 40 percent more than the world market price for those drugs. Now, I am not good at math, and I demonstrated that this morning; But let us…
For Augmentin, a 12-tablet supply of 500 milligram here in the United States we pay an average of $49.50. In Europe, for exactly the same drug, the price is $8.75.
Apparently it is commonly prescribed; 850 milligram capsules, quantity of 50. The average price in the United States is $54.49. The average price in Europe is $4.50. And this is a group in Minnesota that has done this study. Another…
The same drug made by the same company in the same plant under the same FDA approval. Mr. Speaker, let me run through a few more. Synthroid, now that is a drug that my wife takes. In the United States, the average price for a 50-tablet…
This debate certainly sounds like debates we have had around this House. Every year when the budget comes up, many of the same expressions, we are hearing terms like exploding tax cuts, risky tax cuts. Somehow I am not really certain what…
Mr. Chairman, we have heard all throughout the day and actually for several years now this recurring theme from the people on the other side about reckless, exploding, risky tax cuts for the rich. Well, let us talk about the tax relief…
I do not know why we are here, to be honest. We passed back in 1982 a bill which said, yes, in fact, the Federal Government would take possession of spent nuclear fuel beginning on January 31, 1998. Why are we here? I think we have been…
I remember that, shortly after we came, the Congressional Budget Office gave us a study and a report. They said, if Congress does not get serious about balancing this Federal budget, that by the time children being born today reach middle…
The other analogy about the boats is the story President Kennedy used, that a rising tide lifts all boats. And if we have some fiscal responsibility, as we have seen in the last 5 years, that by properly managing the budget and by…
I was thinking, if one had been Rip Van Winkle and had fallen asleep 40 years ago and one woke up and one realized how much this government, the Federal Government the State government, the local government, how many different taxes they…
If the gentleman from Illinois will yield, it is interesting, we have had several of my staffers over the last couple of years who have gotten married. In fact, we had two people working on my staff who married each other. We did the…
I want to pay tribute tonight to a real American hero, a gentleman by the name of Kurt Warner. The Warner story has been documented in the last week or so by many sports scribes... I guess I have a special feeling for Kurt Warner for a lot…
I was surprised to learn how many people in America were paying extra taxes just because they were married. That is just not bad tax policy; that is not just bad family policy. At the end of the day there is something almost fundamentally…
Just in closing, Congressman Weller, I wanted to again thank you, because there are two issues that you have worked very hard to help reinforce that I think are sort of the mortar between the bricks that holds our whole culture and society…
First of all, to just highlight how far we have come. Since I came to Congress in 1994, in fact, next Tuesday we are going to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the elections of 1994, November 8. We are going to have a class reunion. I am…
All I am saying is, we will lead by example, regardless of what the White House may do. That has been the example all the way through. When we said you have to reform welfare, we sent them a bill. They vetoed it. We sent a second bill…
The point is, we have all of a sudden been confronted with some expenditures, whether it was in agriculture or other emergencies here in the United States, and people say, what about the Census? The Census is not an emergency. That is…
I rise in support of H.R. 2559. I, too, want to congratulate the leadership and the staff for all the work that went into this bill. It does not go as far as I would like to see us go in terms of the area of revenue protection. H.R. 2559…
very soon the Congress will be engaged in a very vicious debate about milk. And that may surprise some people; but when we start talking about milk marketing order reforms, it is amazing how aggressive some Members can become. Mr. Speaker…
I want to come back to a couple of points that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford) raised, and I think they are very important points, the first of which is, and many Americans do not know this, that one of the most brilliant…
I want to point out I think whenever we are talking about the budget or making any kind of long-term plans, we have sort of got to look at where we are and where we are going. I think the important thing about this chart, it really points…
I want to talk about the facts because we heard earlier today, and there is some revisionist history that it was the, quote, minimal tax hikes of 1993 that brought about the balanced budget that we have today. Mr. Chairman, I am not making…
By that time, Mr. Speaker, they would be paying a tax rate of upwards of 82 percent just to meet the ongoing needs of the Federal Government and the obligations to Social Security. Now, that is the situation we confronted in 1995. The…
In effect, the top chart is essentially what the congressional leadership budget plan has been agreed to; that we will abide by the spending agreement that we made with the President back in 1997. Even if the President will not, we will…
What it means is that we are virtually guaranteed that our children will have a lower standard of living than we have enjoyed. We can put this in any kind of terms we want, but I think every one of us recognizes that one of the…
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