What failed here was an energy sector that didn't consider fully our changing climate and the extreme weather that comes with it.

I mean, we have got a president who summoned the mob. He incited the mob. And he instructed the mob to march to the Capitol and cause trouble.

It was an extraordinary day that started out quite beautiful for me. I live across the street, right next to the Supreme Court; and every day, almost without fail, there are demonstrators out on the Supreme Court who are peaceful. Some of…

What it reveals, aside from the obvious cruelty of the policy, is that we had a government that was not paying attention to the function that an executive has to make things work as opposed to simply make pronouncements that had a…

The zero tolerance policy, obviously, was about intimidating families, and the zero tolerance policy, where it implemented as a tactic taking a child from the parent, was the most effective way of intimidating.

there has to be predictability on the delivery of the vaccine. And, number two, there has to be better Federal and State coordination.

the last administration, I think, could be credited with doing a good job in public/private partnerships to create the vaccines.

Our government is founded on the principle of all power flows from the people. Donald Trump challenged this principle in two ways: Deceit and violence. The deceit is repeated in baseless assertions of an electoral fraud. The violence, the…

Dr. Sackler, you served on the board from, as I understand it, 1990 to 2018. Is that correct?

Your priority is to sell, sell, sell OxyContin.

The Sackler family, through Purdue, has three felony convictions, but no one's in jail and it has its billions still.

There was a fundamental decision that the board made to sell, sell, sell OxyContin.

There was a Wall Street Journal article that reported that Wharton, Notre Dame, and the RAND Corporation did a study...

I mean, there are payouts of $100 million to executives, and it is really heartbreaking for a lot of folks who can't figure out how in the world they are going to get the medication for a person in their family that they love.

So, why don't we change the law and make it legal to do that?

So, a Canadian can buy this for $1,800, but you won't give the benefit of that price to the United States of America and our citizens.

why can't people that are Americans get it for $1,800?

you bought a product--your company bought a product. It didn't create a product.

you have raised the price by 450 percent, to $5,500 for a monthly supply.

Except with Medicare. It is illegal. It is illegal.

So, that is a no to negotiating with Medicare directly.

these drugs are a tremendous health benefit, extending lives and alleviating pain, but if we can't afford it, it does no one any good.

Every single American, every single taxpayer at one point or another is going to need pharmaceutical assistance.

The question for this Congress is whether our Government will play a role, an active role to stop price gouging by the pharmaceutical industry?

But you are familiar with Medicare Part D that is a benefit to seniors and then enables them through the Government to purchase that product. Correct?