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

I think that regulatory reform and competition advocacy are very, very important.

It would eliminate the abuses of product hopping.

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

Today, pharmaceutical companies are confronting the American people with a terrible choice: Miss rent payments and skip meals to pay for their prescriptions or go without the lifesaving medications that they need.

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

to explicitly prohibit healthcare mergers that enable greater exploitation of existing market power and are likely to result in harm to consumers.

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.