Peter Welch

This is a huge opportunity with the Internet of Things.

We are trying to get educated before we pass legislation, which isn't necessarily how we usually operate.

Thank you very much, and I want to thank Chairman Latta and Ranking Member Schakowsky for this hearing.

We're not going to arrest our way out of this problem. It's not going to happen.

I do believe that we must have a Marshall Plan for attacking this, much like we did with the HIV epidemic with the Ryan White bill.

We have got to have as part of our response a revitalization of rural America.

I don't meet people who are addicted that want to be addicted.

We acknowledge our problem and try to face it. That's what we did.

That is really a good question. But that example about that pill going from costing $7.50 to $1,500 means that the owner of that pill--and Martin Shkreli is the guy who did it; he is now in jail--was able to corner the market and then just…

This question of imposing a big responsibility without providing the resources to get the job done is of concern to me.

This is taxpayer money.

The boss is the one who has to make certain that it is a reasonable imposition on taxpayers, or do you disagree with that?

There was an acknowledgment on both sides that privacy was not being protected, that there was no reasonable safeguard for Americans' privacy.

This event that happened, whether it was Facebook or some other platform, was foreseeable and inevitable, and we did nothing about it.

It is absolutely essential we do that in order to be able to say yes or no.

The FCC, in my view, is not meeting its congressionally mandated goal.

Rural America is being left behind.

We'd really want some assurance that the local concerns have a seat at the table.

The reduction of emergency planning functions during periods when spent fuel remains are in spent fuel pools.

The reality that the use of safe stored decommissioning procedure will effectively delay the cleanup in the redevelopment of the nuclear site for decades is a big issue for us.

The questionable uses of the decommissioning trust fund, such as for spent fuel management, is a recurring issue.

My concern that I want to address is decommissioning.

The lack of State and local stakeholder involvement in the decommissioning process is a concern.

That's right, but what I heard you say to Mr. Carter is that, essentially, the PBMs impose their own formulary by the rebate system they set up.

If you're buying on behalf of the whole country, you ought to get a better price than if you're individually walking into the drug store, per unit, right?