Rep. Blunt rochester hello, im congresswoman lisa blunt rochester from delaware. When i ran to represent the first state in congress, my constituents and people across the nation demanded action to Lower Health Care cost and improve access to Quality Health care. And congress promised to follow through. Since january, members of the house have worked to deliver on that problem. We further strengthened ever Nations Health care system by building upon the Affordable Care act. But we still have more work to do. This week, my colleagues and i are back in our districts speaking to our constituents about the latest and boldest part about our for the people agenda, hr3, the lower drug costs now act. House democrats are putting the American People first and directly addressing a broken system where americans pay five, 10, sometimes 60 times more than others around the world pay for the same drug. Our dynamic approach to tackle our Prescription Drug system, to bring prices down for seniors, for
Republicans 202 7488001. Tweet us cspanwj. Our Facebook Page is facebook. Com cspan. Here is a recent story out of hartwick township, michigan. Constituents said they were growing to like u. S. Representative elizabeth flocking until she supported the impeachment inquiry. Marshall to 61 of the vote and the surrounding county. Said congress has responsibly for determining whether the president should be removed from office for asking before leader investigate joe biden. [video clip] a week ago monday, myself and six other members of the freshman class of congress, all former military or former cia, wrote an oped in support of the inquiry. [booing] [applause] i knew that it was going to be an issue here at home. I made that decision because sometimes there are moments in life that are beyond politics, and i felt this moment was that. [applause] a foreign leader and asked him to dig up dirt on an american. [yelling] host the New York Times this morning looks at the House Republican side w
Host this week on newsmakers, former republican congressman James Greenwood from pennsylvania, served from 1993 to and currently is president 2005 and ceo of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. We also have Peter Sullivan, reporter with the hill. And sarah carlon smith. Welcome to you all. Congressman, what is your organization, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization . James we are the National Trade association for about 1000 biotechnology companies. Most of them in the Drug Discovery business. When you think of pharma, they have the Biggest Companies in the industry merck, pfizer, Johnson Johnson. We have most of them as well, but one of the things that this thing wishes us, we have literally hundreds and hundreds of small Startup Companies on the cutting edge of biotechnology innovation of new medicines. Peter drug pricing is the hot issue. I will start with a general question. We have seen polling data that about 3 in 10 americans are basically rationing medicine because
Those is really changing. Fentanyl but, as you write abo about, fentanyl mixed with cocaine or methamphetamines. So i want to start off with the big picture. What got you into this . I have a friend died from fentanyl in 2010 before people were talking about it. Before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago, i was a music journalist primarily narrows doing a report on people dying at raves. These electronic music, or those tens of thousands of people partying. The deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being a lethal drug before and i found out that almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. Mixed with other chemicals . Exactly. There was almost no real troop ecstasy at all. It was all these new chemicals. So i wanted to find out what the drugs were and it turns out that there are hundreds of new drugs that i had never heard of and most people have never heard of, all synthetic, made in a lab and almost all of them in china. So i heard about drugs c
Changing it is fentanyl but as you write about in your book it is mixed with cocaine, metha. So i just want to start off with the big picture what got you into this . What gave you incentive to spend four years of your life and how did you keep going with it . It is fascinating. I had a friend who died in 2010 from fentanyl before people were talking about it and before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago i was a music journalist primarily in doing a report on why so many people were dying at raves. This big electronic music where there is tens of thousands of people partying and somebody would always die and the deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being such a lethal drug and i find out almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. It had been mixed with chemicals there is no true ecstasy its all these new chemicals i want to find out what these drugs were. It turns out there are hundreds of new drugs i have never heard of the most people have n