Kevin Brady: “I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his strong leadership on this. It has been invaluable. Like impeachment…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his strong leadership on this. It has been invaluable. Like impeachment, Speaker Pelosi's fewer cures bill was written in secret, highly partisan, and is dead when it goes to the Senate. The President won't sign it. The Senate won't take it up. It is losing support every day. Here is an idea. Let's pass a bill. Let's come together. The only bill that has bipartisan provisions, bicameral provisions, a bill that lowers prices, deserves to become law, a bill you can be proud of, the Lower Costs, More Cures Act, our Republican bill. It doesn't kill cures; it accelerates them. It makes it easier for patients to use their personal healthcare plans to lower costs for medicines, holds pharma accountable by insisting they pay more of the drug costs for seniors. It pulls back the curtain on drug pricing. It forces these companies to justify their prices. It can help seniors lower their medicine costs by $300 a year. Every Member of Congress who pledged to deliver lower costs for families and seniors and who truly wants more cures for diseases will fulfill that promise with H.R. 19. I urge support.”