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April 30, 2019

"Due to the lack of transparency, these price concessions are often withheld from patients and payers, increasing PBM profits while failing to decrease drug costs. H.R. 2376, the Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019, directs the FTC to review and report on PBMs' anticompetitive behaviors and other issues affecting competition in the pharmaceutical supply chain as a whole."

April 30, 2019

". . . for too long, drug manufacturers have been allowed to game the system by submitting numerous or baseless, bogus petitions simply so the FDA will delay competing manufacturers’ approvals. . . . The Stop STALLING Act is sound, bipartisan legislation that promises to stop this problem for good."

April 30, 2019

". . . if the branded manufacturer denies the provision of samples, it can delay its competitor’s approval and prop up its own drug’s high costs. This should not be happening. . . . The CREATES Act will prevent this kind of gaming and make sure that generic and biosimilar manufacturers can gain samples to complete testing and win FDA approvals."

April 30, 2019

"The Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act would . . .  accelerate the lowering of prescription drug prices in America. . . . [and] prevent anticompetitive settlements that line drug company pockets while consumers pay the bill."

April 29, 2019
WASHINGTON – Reps. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced the bipartisan Preserve Access to Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act. This legislation strengthens the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ability to challenge settlement agreements between large brand-name drug companies and generic drug companies in court, which could help lower prescription drug prices for Americans.
April 29, 2019

“The Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019 would shed light on how PBMs are affecting prescription costs and patient choice. This would support Congress as it crafts evidence-based solutions to address the anticompetitive role PBMs play as pharmaceutical costs continue to rise.”

April 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement in response to Democrats’ subpoena for Don McGahn and a list of documents: “For the second time in four days, the chairman has issued a subpoena prematurely and contrary to his pledge not 'to issue a subpoena every time we have a disagreement with the administration.' Don McGahn sat for more than 30 hours of interviews with the special counsel’s investigation, and the chairman has answered that with a stunning 36-item subpoena.
April 22, 2019
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, made the following statement after viewing the special counsel’s report with only grand jury redactions at the Justice Department this morning: “Today I had the opportunity to view the Mueller report at the Department of Justice. The Attorney General has offered extraordinary accommodations to make this information available to certain members of Congress.
April 22, 2019

"A review of some of the passages from pages 168-180 make the summary on page 7-8 crystal clear in recognizing the summary is about congressional lawmaking authority under separation-of-powers when constitutional tensions exist between the President’s official Article II actions and obstruction of justice statutes. . . . The absence of any statement asking Congress to serve in a prosecutorial capacity in an obstruction of justice case should not be surprising, because that is not Congress’s role — it is the role of the Department of Justice."

April 19, 2019

" . . . today's subpoena is wildly overbroad. It commands the department to provide Congress with millions of records that would be plainly against the law to share . . . The chairman's process flies in the face of normal and proper congressional oversight."