none of us wants America to return to that time.

Senator Crapo and I talk often about this, and we intend to continue our mental health work in this Congress, again in a bipartisan way.

When it comes to health care, that means protecting Medicare for the next generation by asking the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes; strengthening Medicare's negotiating power for the cost of prescription drugs; and investing in…

I strongly support this approach, especially as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to steadily implement the laws that are already on the books.

This is urgent, urgent business.

If you and your loved ones do not have your health, everything else goes by the board.

I have said from the beginning that when the Federal Government leads on flagship health reforms in Medicare and in its key programs, we know as sure as the night follows the day that the private sector is going to follow.

Let us start with the USMCA. Senator Brown and I fought for stronger, faster-acting enforcement tools like the rapid response mechanism.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

The President's budget comes down to a simple proposition: helping working families and the middle class get ahead and reducing the deficit are not mutually exclusive.

the President's budget has several bold proposals to build on the Inflation Reduction Act that will hold big pharma accountable.

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

We certainly are not going to go backwards; at least certainly the majority in the United States Senate is not going to go backwards.

I have serious concerns with the focus on partisan policies that risk harming health-care access and affordability for both current and future patients.

I strongly support this approach, especially as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services continue to steadily implement the laws that are already on the books.

We are going to be having a hearing next Thursday in this committee specifically on them.

Senator Crapo and I talk often about this, and we intend to continue our mental health work in this Congress, again in a bipartisan way.

I am a very strong supporter of accelerated approval for these very exciting new drugs for Alzheimer's.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.

The administration needs to ramp up enforcement of the trade laws that are already on the books--across the board.

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

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

If Republicans go after Medicaid the way they did in 2017 by cutting Federal support to State Medicaid programs... that guaranteed backstop of nursing home care for seniors is ripped away.

We can help working families and seniors and the middle class get ahead.

Fifteen years after the law was written, the insurance companies, the big insurance companies, are still finding ways to drag their feet on carrying out the parity law with respect to mental health.