04/16/2013
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"Rejoining TPP is among the most important things we can do to advance our economic position in Asia and erode the effectiveness of China's economic coercion."
"If I could say, and I will conclude, Senator Cassidy, with your comment about the need for rules for the road and discipline mechanisms, we do not even use market mechanisms to discipline price."
"The asserted reason is budget cuts. We just did a tax bill that increases the national debt by $1.5 trillion."
"If we just use standard commercial practices like best price contracts, for example, which are market mechanisms, if we did that, we could dramatically reduce the cost especially of mature drugs that ..."