Political Quotes

“I believe neither of us has any more speakers. I yield myself such time as I may consume to close. Madam Speaker, we have had a good debate here on the floor. Unfortunately, it is not a debate over a bipartisan piece of legislation. It is a debate over a partisan bill that will never become law. The President's office has issued a recommendation that he would veto this bill, should it ever get out of the Senate and to his desk. Beyond that, let's talk about what impact this will have in this pandemic. We have heard a lot about drugs. We know from the Congressional Budget Office that this legislation will reverse the gains and innovation made in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, that it would result in fewer new drug products developed and coming to market. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 38 fewer medicines would be developed to cure diseases. My friend from Massachusetts talked about Therese on the doorstep in Lowell, Massachusetts, with COPD. What a tragedy it would be if one of those 38 medicines under development happened to cure COPD. Maybe it is a cure for COVID-19. Maybe it is a cure for ALS or Alzheimer's or some form of cancer, like the ovarian cancer that claimed my mother. What we do know is it puts a dagger in the heart of innovation.…”