Press release
WASHINGTON— Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) released the following statement after voting against Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats’ Obamacare bailout package that passed the House yesterday. The package uses savings from bills to lower the cost of prescription drugs, which amounts to nearly $5 billion, to prop up Obamacare.
“We had a real chance to work together to lower the cost of prescription drugs, but Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Leadership showed us once again they are more interested in playing politics than making a difference for the American people,” Mullin said. “Both sides have been working together to address this problem. We passed legislation to make prescription drugs more affordable out of the Energy and Commerce Committee with unanimous support. But instead of bringing those bills to the floor on their own, Nancy Pelosi packed it with a poison pill Obamacare bailout, all but ensuring the legislation will never get signed into law. It’s disappointing that the Democrats turned a bipartisan effort into a partisan, political show and continue to put politics above the American people.”
Mullin supported the bipartisan drug pricing legislation when it was passed out of the Energy and Commerce Committee last month. He recently cosponsored H.R. 2700, which contains all three bills to lower the cost of prescription drugs that passed out of committee. The bill uses the nearly $5 billion in savings to extend funding for one year for all the public health programs, including community health centers and the special diabetes programs. Funding for these public health programs is set to expire at the end of September 2019. Click here to read the text.
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