Jason Chaffetz

Profit is, of course, a motivator. It is, of course, part of your calculation.

My basic concern here is Turing or Valeant or any other company has the right, I believe, to come in and enter the marketplace.

What I don't want to do is have government controls or government price controlling, but it is difficult when you see patients who are suffering.

I think that is one our questions. Are they actually spurring innovations? Should there be limitation on the resale of those vouchers?

And then you wonder why the average person who is trying and scraping by, and they see their insurance rates go up double digits, screaming high, it is because of people like you. That is why they are going up. It is one of the key reasons.

You are not losing money. You are raking it in hand over fist as fast as you can.

The proper role of Congress is not to micromanage a private company. It is not my role.

Every business should make a profit, but it has turned from profit to greed.

I do believe that it is imperative that people tell the truth, that they are ethical, that they not mislead the public.

I believe that the FDA has failed to meet its statutory responsibility and is dramatically behind in its processing.

Congresswoman, that's an excellent question, and I think that's exactly what we need to take a look at right now.

We are going to have your back, and we are going to make sure that the truth gets out there.

Thank you for your good work. We wouldn't know about this without those good people doing tough, difficult work.

You are laughing at the American taxpayer. I don't know who that guy works for. I am telling you, don't just sit there and laugh at us.

You are making a fundamental and total mistake. You are misusing American taxpayer dollars.

And, Mr. King, you are enabling this. You are the decision-maker. You have been given this mantle of trust from the President of the United States and you are failing. And it has got to quit.

We make clear that not only do we need ethical conduct, but we can't even have the appearance of any impropriety.

Simply put, when the CIOs fail to bring high management and ethical standards to their work, institutions suffer.

We don't have time to play these kind of games.

That makes absolutely no sense.

They are scoring an F on their scorecard.

Every single score is going down. Every single one of those is negative.

I have no additional speakers. I urge its passage. I really and truly enjoyed working with Members on both sides of the aisle to get this through and urge its adoption. I reserve the balance of my time.

I claim time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes.

I simply want to say that I concur with the gentleman from Pennsylvania who has studied this and spent a considerable amount of time with this. We would urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment. This amendment removes title II of the bill…