[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 24, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        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.''