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Lloyd Alton Doggett is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 35th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Texas's 10th congressional district from January 4, 1995, to January 3, 2013. Throughout his career, Doggett has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic justice, advocating for policies that support working families and promote social equity.
I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Roy The Acting CHAIR. It is now…
I hope my colleagues will join us in supporting it, recommitting this, pursuing the objective of better healthcare for all, and protecting all Americans from preexisting condition barriers, and ensuring they are not the subject of…
I say to the chairman, he is absolutely correct. I referred to the Build Back Better instead of the American Rescue Plan. It is easy to get confused about them. The American Rescue Plan was, of course, signed into law and has helped so…
The chairman of our committee says that there were great gifts to insurance companies. What the Build Back Better bill did was to give individuals additional tax credits. Some Republicans call those tax cuts, but they were credits given to…
The guns are already the number one killer of children in our country. This year, there have been 291 mass shootings. We can count the numbers, but we can't count the pain of an empty chair where there was once a vibrant parent or a…
And so adding another $2 or $3 trillion to the deficit by cutting taxes is largely likely to have the same impact as if we increase spending by that amount.
Your testimony before the Ways and Means Commission, Committee over the years has been very consistent that tax cuts do not pay for themselves, and that remains true today, does it not?
America's strength has always been found in our diversity. Let's overcome the fearmongering and the anti-immigrant hysteria and do the serious, hard work of passing genuine comprehensive immigration reform. Let's turn immigration into a…
While my focus has been principally on drug pricing today, this hearing also, of course, deals with the question of medical devices.
I think paying outrageous drug prices hasn't resulted in innovation. In fact, I think it has had just the opposite effect.
I am particularly concerned that under what we have termed the 'Republican Default on America' legislation that was approved a week ago that in a 22 percent cut in NIH funding is going to deny us the very kind of cures that all of us today…
I think that much of the research shows that a good way to get new cures is to invest in the NIH.
The NIH's budget should be doubled. But shockingly, a bill passed by the House instead cut NIH's funding by $10 billion.
I hope that moving forward we will not once again yield to the power of Big Pharma, instead, move to advance reasonable solutions that promote competition and achieve lower prices.
Finally, Mr. Chairman, we have a responsibility to ensure that patients come first and that it is their health and their livelihoods, not drug prices, which must be non-negotiable.
Over 200 device qualified in the first 3 years of the program. And some of those didn't actually show any useful benefits for patients and had important safety risks.
The real angel investors in research and development for new cures in America are none other than American taxpayers.
Despite these many significant concerns, our Republican colleagues would have taxpayers pay monopoly prices for questionable drugs and devices.
Well, I hope that in addition to what you do in terms of payment, that we will continue to see a vigorous examination of the false claims that are made to ensure that everyone who relies on Medicare Advantage and takes that approach gets…
It is not enough to say we will not cut Medicare. It is taking the steps necessary to ensure that it is there not just for today's grandparents, but for tomorrow's grandchildren.
As you know, one of my long-standing concerns going back to at least the Obama administration has been the enforcement of our agreement with Peru.
I am concerned about one particular example of abuse, and that is in Honduras, where a U.S. company, Prospera Inc., is suing the Honduran Government for close to $11 billion.
And I hope you will continue to advocate that point of view to others in the administration who may not share it.
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