"When congressional Democrats and the Biden Administration worked to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, we capped the price of insulin for Medicare beneficiaries and empowered Medicare to directly negotiate lower prices for drugs."
"I personally believe that if you have a public entity that does not have a profit motive, like Medicare, negotiate these prices with the manufacturers."
"I think at the core of what we are talking about is an extreme out-of-control profit motive that has virtually no guardrails."
"That is why Senator Bernie Sanders and I recently introduced the Insulin for All Act, historic legislation to rein in Big Pharma and cap the price of insulin at $20 per vial for every person who depen..."
"Leaving life or death medical decisions in the hands of drug manufacturers and multibillion dollar PBMs instead of patients and their healthcare providers is literally killing people."
"I believe that the profit-seeking motive in the pharmaceutical industry is out of control, and I think that it is what is hurting people."
"access to clean air is a human right."
"We rise to convene today's hearing to support the Biden Administration's critical actions to combat climate change."
"my Republican colleagues have once again shown that they are unable or unwilling to hold a serious conversation on climate change."
"Reducing emissions from the transportation sector is critical as transportation is now the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States."
"The negative effects of polluted air are disproportionately severe on Black, Brown, and indigenous communities."