Ron Wyden

Today's hearing is an important opportunity for committee members to get up to speed on the latest practices being employed by pharmacy benefit managers and the impact these tactics are having on taxpayers and Americans who count on…

I am going to go out and have all these town hall meetings, and I am going to hold that up.

That is why I previously cosponsored something called Creating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked.

People care a whole lot about this matter of getting mugged at the pharmacy counter.

I told the story the other day about how we got the price-gouging penalties, finally, and we are already starting to see breaks for consumers.

You always know whose side Senator Brown is on. Senator Brown is always on the side of the working families and the senior citizens.

My simple message is this: every drug should have a price that is available for all to see and creates equity.

They are going to want something done about this.

The average price that PBMs charge Medicare Part D plans for the exact same drug is over $3,000.

We want to make this a bipartisan effort in this committee.

Our bipartisan efforts on organ transplants--thank you very much, Senator Grassley--have really paid off.

There are clearly too many jobs in the Federal government that require a security clearance.

Senator Moynihan always stood for the proposition that a big part of the job in intelligence is striking the balance between transparency and protecting sources and methods.

I asked Director Haines about a matter that I'm especially concerned about and that's the National Security Council's rewrite of the Executive Order that governs classification and declassification.

This is more reason for the Congress and this Committee to step in and do this job and do it in a bipartisan way.

One of the reasons is that there are too many secrets of matters that do not need to be secret.

I am all-in for Senator Cardin's program.

Thrilled, terrific. But what about this other stuff?

Senator Stabenow has been one of the great leaders on health care in the U.S. Senate.

Deamonte Driver was a 12-year-old who lived in Prince George's County, MD, about 7 miles from here.

I think your answer is spot-on, and I would be interested in any information you have or could supply.

I do not want to make this a bouquet-tossing contest, but the fact is Senator Cardin has been after these issues for years and years, before they became popular, before they were debated on the floor of the Senate and the House.

Disparities in our health-care system are well documented, and the impact they have in regard to vulnerable communities.

Now the United States needs to kick into a higher gear with smarter, more innovative approaches to trade.

The Biden administration, from the get-go, had a difficult job to do with respect to trade.