Political Quotes

“Why would we do that if it were not simply to satisfy the pharmaceutical industry? I want to tell the gentleman, this is not a Republican or Democratic issue back home at the grassroots. I went to a VFW hall this past Sunday morning for breakfast, and there were people there at that hall that were talking about not being able to afford their medicines. They were Republicans and Democrats. This is an issue that cuts across parties. It cuts across economic levels, as well, because people can be fairly well-to-do and be unable to see that their parents or their relatives or their neighbors, their elderly neighbors, have access to life-saving medications. People are sick of this. They are absolutely outraged at what is happening. Why that outrage does not result in some meaningful action here in the House of Representatives is beyond me. This problem has been with us for quite some time. We talk and we talk, and we have campaigns, and we say we are going to do something about it; yet time passes, and then we go through that kind of farcical exercise that we went through in our committee, where every amendment that we brought up that was designed to make these drugs more affordable was shot down by our Republican friends. They simply would not take the first step in trying to lower the cost of these drugs. They use all kinds of rhetoric. They talk about price controls.…”