Pete Sessions: “Tonight is a very important debate for this country. It is important for us to understand that the drugs that get…”

“Tonight is a very important debate for this country. It is important for us to understand that the drugs that get reimported in this country may not be known and understood exactly for what they are by the consumers of this country. As a person who travels overseas, when I want to buy a shirt that might be on the street in Bangkok or in Shanghai, I know that that is probably a counterfeit. I buy that and purchase that shirt knowing that. But as a consumer in this country, going on the Internet, thinking I am buying something from Canada, it can be from somewhere else. It happens every day. Let us not let this happen to consumers. Let us let them know what they are buying, where they are getting it from; and let us make sure we reduce the cost of prescription drugs in this country. We have a plan to do that. That plan is called a prescription drug plan that the Republican Party has had on this floor. Let us reduce the cost of prescription drugs but let us keep our seniors safe.”