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“Prescription Drug Costs (Executive Session)” mentioning Mitch McConnell was published in the Senate section on page S1742 on March 24.
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Prescription Drug Costs
Madam President, we hear from Democrats that they want to do things in a bipartisan way. Last year, Senator Wyden and I developed a bipartisan bill that would save the taxpayers $95 billion and reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
Everybody wants that. President Trump wanted it, President Biden wanted it, and there is no reason why in 1 week we couldn't get that bill passed. We don't have to wait until several weeks down the road to do something like that.
It didn't come up last Congress because both Senator Schumer and Senator McConnell were against it. It is bipartisan. We ought to move on that.
(The remarks of Mr. Grassley pertaining to the introduction of S. 949 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.''
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