Peter Welch actually said...

"The pharmaceutical industry is dead set against governmental action through negotiation. And why wouldn't they be? They have record profits."

"We negotiated with pharma to buy, at a reasonable price, the vaccine and refunded them."

"Pharma is not opposed to governmental action, and it is governmental action that provides them with patent protection and the exclusive right to use the product."

"I disagree with Mr. Griffith on the constitutionality of this. But I do agree with many of the proposals that our Republican colleagues have in their bill."