Are there legislative efforts we can undertake to increase compliance by State and local governments?

And Mr. Balto also argued that PBMs exclusivity arrangements with some drug manufacturers can keep drug prices artificially high by keeping lower-price drugs off the market and by incentivizing PBMs through manufacturer rebates to switch…

I reject the assertion that there's no room for improvement. Clearly, there is.

Thank you, Madam Attorney General, for being here, particularly at a moment when I know you and the entire Justice Department is offering full assistance to your counterparts in France to respond to this horrific terrorist attack.

I'll continue to push for sensible gun safety measures like preventing suspects on our terrorist watchlist from buying guns.

Even the ATF has said that this very vague standard frustrates prosecutions.

I would ask the Chairman, consistent with his views that there are some problems with existing law, that we work together to allocate the funds so that all of the information gets to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

But you agree, do you not, Madam Attorney General, that if the law in fact said the background check has to be completed and the transfer approved we would reduce the likelihood that people who are ineligible, 16,000 in that 4-year period…

the ability to at least have some bargaining power against these pharmaceutical companies in the marketplace is something that we should attempt to preserve as much as we can.

And so is it fair to conclude that your assessment is that the transparency related to your relationship with the pharmaceutical company, that it could produce higher costs for the consumer?

And we talk a lot about another effort to permit the Federal Government to negotiate discounted prices directly with pharmaceutical companies to the Medicare program, which they're prohibited from doing.

I would just ask the gentleman if he would commit to working with Congresswoman Hahn and I and a group of others that are really interested in restoring and modernizing the Highway Beautification Act so that we might work collaboratively…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for her extraordinary leadership on this effort. I rise in strong support of this amendment. This amendment would require the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility, costs, and economic…

It has been 34 days since the murder of nine men and women at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. It has been 140 days since the murder of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It has been 1,055 days…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your legislation that created the TIP Report in your early years upon this issue.

I remain very concerned that the absence of a coherent strategy for success in Syria and Iraq to defeat ISIL...

Finally, the President, obviously, has just announced 50 Special Forces will be dispatched to Syria to advise and assist Kurdish forces in that region.

The question is, will America lead? And that's what I'd like to have in the days and months to come.

I think it is also clear that is not our long-term solution.

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Last Sunday, mass shootings inflicted violence on Elkhart, Indiana, and Fort Myers, Florida. There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States this year--more than in any other country in the world. One of the causes for…

I would like to work with you on that because I'm not sure that that is actually the practice.

we ought to be able to do things to create serious incentives or maybe penalties for States that fail to furnish that information.

But as more Americans lose their lives to senseless gun violence, this Congress has failed to act.

And so first I want to just draw your attention to the shooting which occurred at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.