A further parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will please state his parliamentary inquiry.

``Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.'' John Adams made that statement almost 250 years ago. I recall his words…

I thank the gentleman for recognizing me tonight. I appreciate it. Recognizing that the time is drawing short, and we have lots of other people who want to speak on this issue, I will attempt to keep myself in check on the time. Mr…

I personally think we have given too much power to FERC as a Congress, and we need to take some of that back anyway.

Nobody should have to go through that.

I think it would behoove us to do some of that.

Representing a fairly rural not affluent district, this is one of the reasons that I am pushing for these ideas because my constituents deserve to get just as good care as those folks in the urban areas or in the wealthier areas.

I am really excited by telemedicine.

I greatly appreciate it.

We recently introduced the Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalization Act of 2018 which seeks to improve quality in nursing homes.

Shouldn't illegal be at the very top of that model?

I think it's better not to have the government in there telling you all what to do as social media.

Get in there and find some groups that can help out on your advisory council.

if people are facing death, they will take that Hail Mary pass and take whatever they need to, if they can.

I have been an active proponent for right to try for many years.

I don't think it covers.

I thank the gentleman very much, and I appreciate my colleague for introducing this amendment. He is absolutely right. The Clean Air Act never gave the EPA this authority. They just created it out of thin air. Their rationale is kind of…

I would love to help on that, I know Ms. DeGette of Colorado struggled with this at some time.

It was shocking, I had heard rumors but they actually confirmed that because of the way the system currently works there are cases where you could go to your pharmacist with your insurance company and your PBM and say, I want to get this…

I think it is something we need to pass.

The idea that they were prevented from doing so by contract before is unconscionable to me.

I will tell you it troubles me when I see that we've put the program together to make it less expensive for folks and then we find that through the process in some places they're actually charging these folks a dispensing fee.

Should Congress establish a new policy prohibiting that practice?

we need to see where these savings are going so that we can make sure that this money and the intent is going to where we intended it to go.

I thank the gentleman and appreciate the time. I would say that that is a good bill, and I am glad to have been an original cosponsor with the gentleman from North Carolina on the bill related to making sure that families are not…