Gerry Connolly

And when we know that industry is paying for a paper posing as an academic research paper directly to influence your rulemaking on their self-interest, that taints and corrupts the process.

We've got to make sure we're doing what we can to reassure the public that the process is an open, objective, fair one.

I'd throw that paper out. I don't care what data they've got. It's so tainted and it's so corrupt.

I hope today's hearing is something that will give you thought and is something that maybe you will take back to the corporate boardroom to reevaluate the pricing of a drug that so many people need access to.

We will not rest until there is true accountability.

I would suggest respectfully that is a little misleading because you had just raised the price six months earlier, and you raised it again six months later.

But the question in front of us is how much is enough? How high do you go to the point where it becomes a barrier to access?

I am here for my friend Rick. I am here to make sure no American has to go through what Rick went through.

My friend from Ohio, the ranking member, has attempted to discredit the purpose of this hearing.

You know, the policy in the U.S. was to support that government. Suddenly, we are reversing it. It is a huge policy confusion.

What in the world would account for such an enormous pivot in U.S. policy with respect to Haftar in the space of 8 days?

I would just say to both Mr. Stein and Mr. Howley, you'd better be right, because you're under oath.

This is very troubling, because we have the government saying that only four of the parts, in fact, would be defined as commercial.

Sure looks like a strategy to me.

No good can be served if we have this kind of vacillation, profound vacillation, at the highest levels of the U.S. Government.

The U.S. needs to come out with a clear statement on a cease-fire, you know, walking that back so we can get down to a return to the political process.

We oppose the military offense by Khalifa Haftar's forces and urge the immediate halt of these military operations against the Libyan capital.

We are so blessed in this country to have a government that we say our rights come from a creator, not from government.

Make no mistake about this, with their offer of the Huawei and ZTE technology that we know they have given to the Maduro regime, China is looking to harness and capture despotic, authoritarian regimes.

The behavior of the Chinese Government and Chinese firms undermine the sovereignty of national security not just of their countries but of the United States and the western hemisphere.

I am deeply concerned about the increasing influence of China in the western hemisphere.

It really depends on how big the state is, maybe, how you view block grants.

I hope we can work on this on a bipartisan basis, Mr. Jordan, because this affects every one of our states.

We know that MAT works three or four times better than cold turkey, and there are real risks with cold turkey.

The AA approach, go cold turkey, absolutely is life-threatening when it comes to opioid addiction.