James Lankford

I cannot figure out how it gains market access and how it is an FTA.

I call them economic freedom zones.

We did, once upon a time, have huge tax breaks in Puerto Rico. It was a 100 percent tax credit.

If we do not fix our tax policy and incentivize manufacturing to actually be here rather than punishing people to do manufacturing here, we are in trouble.

Free up prices and then people will make pricing decisions.

I agree somewhat with Senator Blumenthal, the description of the problem is much easier than the actual availability of the answer.

It cannot work worse than the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) model that we currently have.

Veterans deserve better, and we should not be reliant on a supply chain that is that tenuous.

If we had international competition it helps to keep our prices down, but it also would help to keep the supply up as well.

If you have a shortage of doxycycline, the price needs to go up.

We currently are one of the worst countries in the world for research and development (R&D), based on our current tax policy.

When I ask people about how quickly can we get drugs out of China, they talk in decades, not in year.

The patient has to encounter the price for the pricing system to work.

Every life is worthy of protection, born or unborn.

I get that, but there are probably not kids' names in the report; but thank you.

We would be glad to work with the administration. You will find bipartisan support to be able to deal with this.

The New York Times published this report that was pretty horrific about labor, but this is not new.

I do not know why there would be a good reason you could not share with this committee.

There are 85,000 children that HHS lost immediate contact with once they were placed in sponsorship.

You are not fully insured if you are in a community bank.

I would love to talk about marriage penalties in the tax code, because, quite frankly, they are still there.

I find that very creative.

You are not fully insured if you are in a community bank.

Will my banks in Oklahoma pay a special assessment to be able to make Chinese investors whole from Silicon Valley Bank?

Every Oklahoman will pay higher fees in their community banks.