You can't just do that and expect these healthcare pharma issues to be taken care of without funding those agencies.

Absolutely, Mr. Buck, and I look forward to our ongoing discussion on that really critical issue.

This legislation addresses product hopping, a particular abusive form of conduct used by drug manufacturers to extend their monopolies.

It is unacceptable that hundreds of thousands of cancer patients are reportedly delaying lifesaving care.

In closing, the American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and other barriers to affordable healthcare.

It is outrageous that we still have this practice going on where pharmaceuticals are paying their competitors to keep their products off the market.

I look forward to joining Mr. Issa in reforming our Nation's patent laws.

Product hopping causes patients to overpay by potentially billions of dollars annually for their prescription drugs.

both parties here are looking for effective public action to guarantee real market competition.

We also need to enhance and improve the laws with regard to our power of enforcement.

We need to get that done immediately. That will add significant resources to the two agencies, plus the appropriations policy.

thank you for your testimony that I think really helped to inform the work of this Committee

Yesterday, I reintroduced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients through Competition Act together with Subcommittee Ranking Member Buck and Senators Cornyn and Blumenthal.

I want to start with responding to a complete misrepresentation of what this bill does. We have heard our friends on the other side of the aisle say that this bill requires that counsel be appointed to individuals, and they have even gone…

You have to make sure that there is no energy poverty.

Our Nation owes a great debt to the healthcare and social service workers fighting on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. These essential workers treat the ill, administer vaccines, care for the elderly, and respond to emergencies…

This Nation has made far too little progress in the fight for equal pay in the workplace. In 2021, women who work full time year round are paid, on average, only 82 cents for every dollar paid to men. This adds up to over $400,000 in lost…

I urge my House colleagues to vote for this package and close the gender wage gap once and for all.

I thank you, Chairman Deutch and Ranking Member Wilson, for calling this hearing to help us understand how we might have more effective policy as it relates to Syria.

The need for these funds to upgrade wastewater systems cannot be overstated.

These challenges present an urgent need to repair and rebuild our roads, bridges, ports, and transit systems to create jobs, invest in local economies, and enhance the safety of our communities.

We have the opportunity to pass the once-in-a-generation infrastructure package that will stabilize and modernize the Nation's economy, and put millions of people to work.

We must build and retrofit infrastructure capable of withstanding the rising waters, more intense and more frequent storms brought on by climate change.

I am particularly grateful that the package included legislation that Senator Markey, Congressman Moulton, and I introduced--the Leonel Rondon Pipeline Safety Act.

Please be sure that deadlines like this one are not allowed to slip.