"Today's hearing provides us with an opportunity to examine perhaps one of the most important aspects of the 21st Century Cures Initiative."
"I really urged that we make sure that we are out there in the community so that anyone who has lung cancer has an opportunity to participate in this research and perhaps have a more effective therapy."
"Part of the work of our 21st Century Cures Initiative is to identify existing roadblocks to speeding treatments and cures to patients."
"This expensive and antiquated clinical trials model is simply not acceptable in the 21st century."
"The President's health care law was sold to the American people with a number of promises: If you like your plan, you will be able to keep it; if you like your doctor, you will be able to continue see..."
"Yet, as we now know, this promise was simply not true."
"As a result, many plans are turning to narrower provider networks and skimpier prescription drug coverage to keep premiums and deductibles in check."
"Yet as we now know, this promise was simply not true."
"I think it is unacceptable that the administration continues to give Americans the false impression that this promise is somehow true."
"Today's hearing provides us with an opportunity to examine an important aspect of the 21st Century Cures Initiative."
"I am particularly interested in better understanding what we can do to make it more attractive for companies and venture capitalists to invest."
"After all, as we have learned, there are only effective treatments for 500 of the 7,000 known diseases impacting patients today."