If Congress fails to act on this front, patients--and especially seniors--will inevitably suffer.

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

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

We worked really hard together on the Safer Communities Act, and really have the most, the strongest investment in mental health and addiction services literally in 50 years.

As long as I am chair of this committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

Americans deserve better and more affordable access to prescription drugs, and we can find bipartisan results-oriented solutions to advance that goal.

none of us wants America to return to that time.

I strongly support efforts to extend this exemption period from 9 years to 13, ensuring parity between small molecules and biologics.

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.

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

CMS appreciates Chairman Wyden's and Chairman Casey's leadership on the critical issue of emergency preparedness in nursing homes.

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

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

Nobody wants America to return to that time.

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

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…

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.

I want to make it clear--and I think colleagues agree with this--the United States of America has got to play offense on international trade.

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.

I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years.

If Congress fails to act on this front, patients--and especially seniors--will inevitably suffer.

The administration also needs to set up enforcement beyond USMCA to defend American workers and businesses from unfair trade practices wherever they are happening.

China continues to put up barriers to American products and American values, while ripping off jobs, using forced labor, and undermining free speech.

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.

I just want a package so we can land this program in Rhode Island that I have been working on, I think, now for 8 years.