"You would never know, listening to their narrative, that long-time drugs a hundred years old like insulin...increased and skyrocketed in price, threatening the health of American diabetics and prediabetics."
"If you listen to their narrative, you would never know that 600 single-source brand name drugs...went up in price for the American consumer by 21 percent in just a two-year period between 2018 and 202..."
"that ought not to be the kind of Sophie's Choice any American faces."
"that difference means that for an American consumer dependent on this lifesaving drug, it can cost more than $16,000 a month, and I don't think that is an appropriate cost."
"That is the CEO we want to look at. We want to protect the American consumer, and if my friends on the other side of the aisle decide they don't want to do that, I think they are taking a bad step."
"We have to maintain our support, strong support."
"America's leadership and its model has mattered for generations, and we have never been perfect."
"Having the president of the United States either ignore human rights discussions... is a huge problem."
"The emergency is that Congress might prevent the Administration from doing what it wants."
"The emergency was Congress might actually look at these arms sales and reach a different conclusion."
"They have the responsibility to identify areas of waste, fraud, and abuse."