Greg Walden

These early hearings helped inform our legislative work, including the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act, or 'CARA.'

For many years, as you have heard, the Energy and Commerce Committee, and this subcommittee, in particular, has been at the forefront of congressional efforts to address the opioid crisis.

As I was preparing for this, I noticed that in my biggest country in my district, they have a yellow alert up for opioids.

But, as with anything, the internet presents bad actors and those seeking to harm others ample opportunities to manipulate users and take advantage of consumers.

I am a big advocate of the First Amendment. And it can be messy business to, on the one hand, call on them to take down things we don't like and still stay on the right side of the First Amendment.

We want to ensure we do not harm innovation, but, as we have demonstrated in a bipartisan fashion in the past, when we see issues or identify clear harms to consumers and we do not see online entities taking appropriate action, we are…

When I was chairman of this committee, we tried to tackle this whole issue with platform responsibility head on.

The internet presents bad actors with those seeking to harm others some ample opportunities to manipulate the users.

Good morning, Madam Chair. Thanks for having this hearing and welcome everyone in.

H.R. 2271 would improve the comprehensiveness and standardization of child and infant death investigations.

Extending immunosuppressive drug coverage for the lifetime of kidney patients is a cost-effective way for the Federal Government to improve clinical outcomes for those with end-stage renal disease.

My hope is this legislation will find answers to those questions, and more importantly, prevent deaths in the future.

I would like to thank Stephanie Zarecky for being here today, the mother of Scarlett for whom the bill is named.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Cunningham The Acting CHAIR…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Cartwright). The gentleman from Oregon has 30 seconds remaining.

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes.

I am opposed to the amendment and seek time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon is recognized for 5 minutes.

I understand my friend's comments. None of us wants to accidentally create a situation where prices go up rather than down, and I know that is not his intent. We have that concern on this side. Perhaps we can work this out along the way…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Tonko The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

Let me say in response, the CBO also said 38 new cures as a result of H.R. 3 will never come about. The Council of Economic Advisers says 100 new cures will never come about. H.R. 3, the underlying bill the majority wants to put into law…

That is true on the bipartisan, but every provision in the bill has Democratic support as individual bills in other sectors. We brought only bipartisan bills into this alternative. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 18 minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Michigan has 17\1/2\ minutes remaining.

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Oregon has 1 minute remaining. The gentleman from New Jersey has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I appreciate the gentleman for bringing up this important issue. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank the gentleman from Ohio for his remarks. I am hopeful that, after this political exercise of H.R. 3 is done, we can work on a bipartisan basis on needed part D modernization like we were doing before the Speaker, unfortunately…