Political Quotes

“I want to discuss the question of laying the foundation in this budget resolution for containing prescription drug costs. If you think about what happened in the Budget Committee, there was no topic that generated as much interest and as much concern as the question of health care and particularly Medicare and prescription drugs. In fact, at one point the distinguished chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Grassley, said: Well, are we going to relitigate the entire prescription drug bill on the budget? Obviously, the budget resolution does not allow for something like that. I think Chairman Grassley's comments were indicative of the frustration and concern across this country with respect to the inability to hold down the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs. I want to discuss an idea about which I and others on the Budget Committee have been talking.”