Claire McCaskill

In fact, in only one quarter between 2013 and 2015 did you report that growth was driven by volume, so price increases has, in fact, been the entree for your business, correct?

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is lobbying.

Well, we are in trouble if you are---over the last year, with everything that has gone on in the company, if you are 78 percent over last year in the top 30 selling drugs, if you are an industry leader in this area, we are going to have to…

Well, wouldn't you have done due diligence on this as you were deciding to invest more and more--you kept investing.

You were very involved after you started--when you did your SEC filing in March, you were sending emails back and forth in July giving them PR advice, approving press releases.

That is not social good. That is social bad.

Doesn't that require price increases?

I am glad to be here today for the third of our series of hearings about rising drug prices.

I know that the Post Office is more important than the brick and mortar in terms of that community in the sense of community.

We are giving a really good deal to our competitors.

It seems like to me we should charge them extra for the most expensive part of our architecture.

I think they should pay the same as I pay for the last mile.

I think we are getting taken, and I think this happened because there was a panic about the drop in First Class Mail.

Maybe, we figure out what the price is to buy the drug that we paid to develop and continue to manufacture it ourselves and drive that cost way down.

It seems weird that we are making the investment and then they can profit off of theirs for the life of the company.

Most people in Missouri do not understand that--why we would pay for the development of a drug and then have to pay $3,000 a pop for the drug after we paid to develop it.

Metrics matter. And, the idea that we are spending--just in that one example--$100 million in Honduras on an anti-gang problem and the problem has gotten exponentially worse as opposed to better.

Have we gone down the rabbit hole so far that we do not realize how silly this has gotten?

I cannot think of another disease that is more deserving of the increased research dollars.

I urge the Congress to consider this important legislation that will not only benefit those living with Alzheimer's and their caregivers but will actually save the government money.

If we have certain standards for safety and security for our flying public, and the responsibility lies with your agency and the FAA to make sure that the standards are just as rigorous.

10 years to make the rule was not a confidence builder for me.

I hope you charge them double.

If you were a pill, you would be approved

I would urge you to ask your Representatives in the House to pass the RAISE Act without further delay.