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

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?

It is in the report. So, assuming the report is correct, I am asking your opinion about whether that amount of compensation, $400 million, is on the high side?

What Elijah understood is that the Government that is here to serve the people has a responsibility to do things that protect them from price gouging.

I think one of the reasons that a lot of us are focusing on the executive compensation is that the model is higher prices, higher profits, and higher bonuses.

It is $15,000 a year, and the average Medicare beneficiary probably gets a Social Security of about $22,000 or $23,000.

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?

I really don't understand why you don't know these numbers because these are the numbers that come down to the individual patient who can't afford the out-of-pocket, even with the help of the Medicare Part D.

Ultimately, that is paid for by taxpayers, employers, and by individual patients. Do you have any reservations about $100 million being paid to six executives over two years?

I appreciate the subcommittee's attention to the importance of the Affordable Care Act as our Nation is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clearly, more needs to be done. I would like to hear more about what ACA could do to be improved.

if you are going to ease regulations, you have to have standards so that a person... has confidence that they will get the healthcare they need when they need it.

if the cost of healthcare keeps escalating like it is, none of us are going to be able to afford it.

It is not unreasonable to expect that the Taliban that's managed to sustain itself is ultimately going to be in charge in Afghanistan.

I believe it is time for the United States to be out of Afghanistan.

The elected government in Afghanistan has had one backer, and that's essentially the United States.

I applaud the success in getting some kind of peace arrangement, but I think we've got to be clear-eyed that the likelihood is the Taliban will be in charge, that country will continue to be very impoverished, and the instability in that…

I mean, obviously, you have the right to make political donations within the law, and I have no dispute with that.

It was President Nixon in 1970 who had signed a very major postal reform bill to guarantee the independence of the Post Office.

I want to thank Postmaster General DeJoy. And I want to thank the chairman of the board, Mr. Duncan, for your patient answering of our questions.

I assume that both of you agree that that is an essential mission of the Post Office?

I note the irony that the position of the administration, essentially, is that undocumented immigrants are not, quote, 'persons.' They are not persons.

Mr. McKinley and I, for years, have been working on the HOPE for HOMES Act.

I think all of us would really appreciate getting the audits done.