Tim Kaine

I hope that the United States Government and this Administration will think about the Caribbean as an integral part of this community.

By not supporting the OAS at a critical moment when you were willing to show backbone, Hondurans paid a major price, the OAS paid a price, and the United States paid a price as well.

Thank you to Chairman Menendez and Senator Risch for holding this hearing, very important hearing.

I think it is right to call China out on its course of policies on this, which is the most heinous of all.

Let's do background checks, because 77 percent of Republican voters want us to do comprehensive background checks.

We told the American public, 'If we got a majority, if we got the White House, if we had the House, we would do something about gun safety.' And so now, we've delivered a big recovery plan for America, over Republicans stonewalling…

We've been saying for years, 'Well, we don't have the White House, or we don't have the Senate, or we don't have the House.' We have all three levers now. And so, we now should be able to find -- certainly background checks and hopefully…

I'm sick to my stomach, Anderson that the United States Congress has just decided to be a bystander to this carnage.

If you imagine how much that would be for all of the drugs that have been on the market for multiple years and have reached really high prices, then, yes, that would also translate to improved consumer savings and lower prices, lower…

I think that international reference pricing might be a good fallback. It may be a good way of setting parameters.

I think the international reference pricing idea is a good one.

I've just always been struck by the fact that the U.S. does not negotiate for prescription drug pricing under Medicare Part D.

That would be billions of dollars in the Federal Treasury for deficit relief or whatever else we want to do.

Why wouldn't the U.S. engage in basic negotiating tactics in a way that other countries do?

We pay more than other nations because of greed, I think is partially accurate, but I think the other reason we pay more is because of us, Congress.

I raised with the previous administration the notion that we pay so much more than other nations do.

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I think we should say next Thanksgiving and Christmas plan to spend it with your families, both immediate and extended.

I think it is fairly easy to say to the American people, next fall, schools should open, and they should all be in person.

This is not a Republican or Democrat disease. This is a worldwide disease.

We can't drag their feet much longer, but we can't put people in harm's way either.

It is just mind boggling to us that pay taxes, everybody that pays taxes, that--we will help them.

It makes people around you feel a little bit safer.

I have had COVID, and I have been vaccinated and I wear a mask.

That is a reasonable fear, and this is a reasonable step.