as well as senator grassley who is with us. who has been such a leader when it comes to this competition issues. thank you for being here, senator grassley. this is the latest in the competition policy committee hearings, examining american monopoly problems. today, we will focus on the lack of competition in our prescription drug markets. the stakes could not be higher. according to the center for care services, health care spending accounted for 17.7 percent of growth in 2019. more than 16 of the american economy. that is projected to rise to 19.7% by 2028. rising prescription drug prices is a key driver in those numbers. but, it is not just about gdp. it is also about the all too real human cost we will hear about today. for some, the ability to access prescription drugs is what enables them to work, care for their families and loved ones. to just get through the day without excruciating pain. for others, access to prescription drugs is nothing less than a matter of life or death. nearly 20%, member this, forget all the othe

ranking member grassley, senator booker. i want to thank our witnesses for being here today as well, and commend the leadership of those on this committee who are working hard to advance the equal act, and the biden administration that is calling on all of us to apply evidence based policy in a way that actually addresses racial inequalities and criminal justice. the acting director labelle, i've long worked closely with by ten years and local government as chair and ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee look forward to working with you more closely. it's a vital office. i'm glad it has survived unscathed, the attempts to restructure it and realign it in recent years. i had a great series of visits to delaware with the previous director and hope whoever is the next director will commit to coming to delaware to visit us as well. i would be interested in hearing from you by the crack cocaine sentencing disparity does more harm than good in our communities? and with the biden administration is calling on this body t

>> thank you, ranking member grassley. absolutely recidivism is an important factor in how the senate should move forward. as i mentioned, crack offenders residvate at the highest level of all federal drug offenders, crack traffickers i should say, and what we're talking about really is that these people are going back into their communities and revictimizing the members of their community. it is i think an oversimplification to focus solely on disparate impact based on race. you have to consider the fact that the disproportionate negative impact of addiction and violence that flows from crack cocaine on primarily the african-american community and also needs to be considered and recidivism only magnifies that problem for communities of color. >> i'll go back to your comment senator grassley we must prioritize public safety at all times. everything must be viewed through the lens of prioritizing public safety. we have a tremendous amount of data released under the first step act, very low recidivism rates to begin with. we

we have the work senator grassley and i have done on pay for delay. one court case helped with that but there's more work that can be done and i believe if we put that up for a vote on the senate floor in any which way, we would get that done. as you know that is when the generics to keep their products up the market. we have problems of product hopping and which the pharmaceutical companies force patients with an established drug with an expiring patent to a new drug with a new patent often with little or no therapeutic difference just to avoid competition from generic. that is a bill our friend senator cornyn and blumenthal can get at that. just before a generic is going to come on the market, the brand that filed the petitions as it isn't a safe, slows it down and that is another bill senator grassley and i have to do something about. other solutions, senator lee and i worked together on a bill to allow the importation of drugs and certain circumstances when there are issues with pricing. senator grassley and i have another bill to do that more per

senator grassley and i have a more permanent bill. would aloowing the safe importation of drugs inject competition into our system because i think our argument here is if you do have a competition for you have a competition for you have the lower prices, you wouldn't have to go to this? if you don't, why not allow competition? mr. mitchell: particularly from safe countries, that is an excellent idea and would improve competition. what we find -- sen. klobuchar: that might keep prices down sometimes. ovation case. mr. mitchell: did very well could. -- mr. kades: to get approval, companies tend to be smaller markets and they have to go through 18 months, spend money for that, and when the price went sky high, there were all sorts of products on the market in europe that have been there for 20 years. it's find a way to inject that back into the united states and maybe the price increase would not have happened or lasted as long. sen. klobuchar: senator lee. sen. lee: there is a bill called the team act that i introduced with senator gras

chuck grassley won re-election in 2016 by 24 votes.e you that you can make a dent there in iowa? >> you know, when i ran for congress in 2018, i was 28 years old. i came from a working class family. i had no money of my own to put into a campaign, and i was told, you know, what are you doing? how are you going to beat a millionaire in congress? and folks didn't think iowa was worth fighting for, but i did. i proved them wrong and i'm going to do it again because my home is worth it. the working families in our country and in my state are worth it. i'm tired of having politicians in d.c. who just read about working families, study them, but haven't actually listed it. and so that's why we're going to win this. in 2018 i overperformed the top of ticket. i did the same in 2020 and we're going to take our message across this state to make sure iowans know they have a champion who believes in them, who understands them and isn't going to back down when it comes to the policies that actually move their families forward and actually make a di

senator grassley.0, 20 years ago would have been at that negotiating table. we've got the most structurally deficient bridges in the entire country and in our state. where was he? and the same thing when it comes to actually getting things done. when it comes to prescription drugs, he talks about it a lot, but when we passed the most comprehensive prescription drug reform bill out of the house about a year and a half ago. you know who didn't touch it or bring it up? the u.s. senate. it's why we have to get this done. it's why we have got to compete in states like iowa to make sure that we expand the majority and actually get things done for working families. they've been ignored for far too long, and i'm tired of people who go to washington, who are these politicians, and forget about being public servanted. >> abby, thank you so much. we should note that senator grassley declined or request to appear on "american voices." next, mask madness. gop lawmakers reject public health guidelines as the debate

senator grassley is up for hearing and i've asked for a hearing.re's no way in we can legalize anybody until we first understand the effectiveness it would have on the border and whether or not it would incentivize legal immigration mr. secretary you are a fine man and you are very good at your job but if you can't figure out that lee was asian without first securing the border doesn't.an a problem you don't understand this issue and mr. chairman when you asked me to do things that some of my people didn't want to do we did. we have hearings and it's now time for this oversight committee to have a hearing about what the hell happened at our border? and december 2020 we had the largest illegal crossings in 45 years. now six months later we have a mix closing of illegal immigration with no end in sight because of the policy changes by the biden administration i believe put us in peril to do oversight on a broken border to try to figure out what the hell happened the last six months and if we did some other things being suggested by the secretary and

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my next senator worked with chuck grassley and neil gorsuch. mike, good to have you with us. what did you make of justin brier's comments after there's calls for him to step down and retire? >> justice brier has made it clear he's very happy and in great health. there's nobody that will push him out of his job. >> he said two things that could affect his opinion. one was his health and the second one is the court. which i think is a little interesting answer on part two there. >> yeah, people need to remember that president biden said he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. we just saw judge jackson elevated from a d.c. district court to the d.c. federal court of appeals. so she just got there. she needs to be there a year before president biden can move her up. she's the leading contender

chairman. >> thank you, senator grassley.nk you, again tork all the witnesses for participating here today. couple of questions and unless another member joins us, i may be the last one with questions before we journal. let me start coming back to the urgent topic of covid. farm workers were deemed essential during the pandemic as we have discussed repeatedly here today. but as a result, farmers continue to work on the front lines of our food supply chains and often had few resources to protect themselves from the covid-19 virus. nearly 600,000 farm workers contracted covid, and the food and agricultural workers in california, i know, have experienced the highest excess mortality during the pandemic with a 39% increase compared to previous years. for latinos specifically the mortality rate increased reached 59%. according to findings from the national agricultural records survey, about one-third of u.s. farm workers live below the federal poverty level. and fewer than half have health insurance or sufficient paid sick leave.

in there someplace i got do hand it to chuck grassley.d job there. i can't say the same for tom cotton. look at that form! get your head up! touching the ground with your hair doesn't count. to be fair, it's hard to keep your back straight when you don't have a spine. ( cheers and applause ) but when it-- is the piano okay? >> jon: you gota get it, gt phent when ites to news-making sunssidential pr, cotton was overshadowed by south dakota governor and beauty pageant mom calling your toddler fat, kristi noem. yesterday, noem announced she was sending national guard troops to the southern border. good. oh, good for too long, immigrants have been sneaking in from nebraska! what's that? what's that? i'm being told she sent them to the mexican border. the governor of south dakota can do that? is that really what the founders intended? she should ask them. they're from south dakota, too. >> hell, no! >> come on! >> kristi noem's dumb as a rock! >> stephen: but the strangest and most unconstitutional part of this story is that noem is paying for

senator grassley usually wins but you need 60 votes to pass most legislation.teresting to be sure. mike davis, always good to talk to you. thank you very much. we'll watch justice breyer's comments clearly. seems like he's happy where he is right now. mike, thank you. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> sandra: good to see you. that is the "the story" for july 15, 2021. we'll see you tomorrow. i also want to make sure that you take a moment to check out my new untold story podcast. interesting conversation with a man named ed huffine and the new incredible dna science identifying the remains of our veterans and heros killed in battles that were decades ago. it is a fascinating story about the battle of tarawra and the work that he's done at 9-11. we talked about surfside, florida and how the dna work will go on there. he's a fascinating scientist. i encourage you to download that. great to have you with us and check that own. have a great evening, everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. "your world" with neil cavuto is revving up to get

senators durbin and baldwin and grassley and murkowski.resentatives nadler and fitzpatrick and jackson lee and wagner and scanlon. and everyone who has helped make possible this moment, including so many of you who are here today that i haven't mentioned. when someone commits a crime, it's not enough to bring the predator to justice. we also need to support the victims. and it's something that, way back 150 years ago when i was chairman of the judiciary committee, we spent a lot of time working on, setting up victims' funds. that's what this crime victims fund does. in many years of working on the issue, i visited an awful lot of domestic violence shelters. every time i'd go into a city , i would quietly, before i went to where i was supposed to be, quietly slip in and spend time in a domestic violence shelter to speak to the people giving the services, and people getting the services. and, you know, many times the body language that you'd see when you walked in was one of the victims of crime find , themselves almost curled up in a ball.

president second gentlemen, sensors durbin, i think he's here, i thought i saw him senator durbin and grassleyowski. representatives mathur and fitzpatrick jackson wegner everyone who's helped make possible at this moment including so many of you who are here today that i have not mentioned. when someone commits a crime, it's not enough to bring the predator to justice. we also need to support the victims and it's something way back 150 years ago when i was chairman of the judiciary committee we spent a lot of time working on and setting up victims funds. that's what this crimes victims does. many years of working on the issue, i visited an awful lot of domestic violence shelters. every guy time appointer city, quietly before i went to where i was supposed to be, i quietly slipped in spent time in a domestic violenceol shelter to e people giving the services and people getting the services and many times the body language you see when you walk in was one of the victims of crime find themselves almost crawled up into a ball, still suffering from a serious, not only physical abuse they received

senator grassley. >> we all want to know what happened to officer brian sicknick. a tragic death, as a result of that january 6th assault. there's been conflicting reports about his cause of death. have you determined the exact cause of death? and there is an ongoing -- and is there an ongoing homicide investigation? >> i will take the last part of your question first. there is an ongoing investigation into his death. i have to be careful at this stage, because it's ongoing, not to get out in front of it. but i certainly understand and respect and appreciate the keen interest in what happened to him. after all, he was here protecting all of you. and as soon as there is information that we can appropriately share, we want to be able to do that. but at the moment, the investigation is still ongoing. >> so does that mean since the investigation is going on, you have not determined the exact cause of the death? >> that means we can't yet disclose cause of death at this stage. >> but you have determined the cause of death? >> i didn't say that. we're not at a point wher

some members of congress and shooting chuck grassley saying adding these jobs in june, the pre-pandemic best economy started by the trump tax cuts, it is roaring back after a virus interlude. also from congressman don buyer of northern virginia saying the vaccinations driving the huge job growth and vaccines are free, safe and will save your life. eric from hopewell junction, new york, good morning. caller: good morning. it's with a heavy heart that i understand this is your final day. i think that's true. host: one more day. caller: ok. but you will be added to the unemployment rolls. i expect a book or a memoir, you have had an amazing perspective all these years and i've watched all you guys try to be in the no man's land of the dialogue of our country. in other words, in the middle. understanding both sides and trying to have a coalition of consensus and thoughtful conversation and i try to model myself after c-span see those as given by brian lamb and you are a worthy predecessor of that and i'm looking for that book. host: thank you for that. i won't be unemployed which my wife is

senator booker and then will have senator grassley. senator booker. >> thank thank you very mucm chairman. i would like to put questions with my friend dr. hendrickson. code would really showed how fragile our food system is. we saw the system breakdown in pretty stunning waste their consumers would pay higher prices for meet while ranchers were paid less for the cattle but they consolidated companies really made record profits. covid didn't create this probably it will shine a light on in many of the witnesses who testified talked about how there is really record concentration going on right now in the meatpacking industry. companies like tyson, , cargill, jbs and national beef control more than 80% of all the u.s. beef processing. i've been concerned about these extreme levels of concentration for years and passion i've introduce a number of bills to try to deal with that, with multiple colors on both sides of the outer senator tester by put together a bill that would stop these ag mergers, put a moratorium on the. i've introduce ano

senator grassley. senator cantwell is tied up in a hearing. the next two are senator cornyn and senator menendez. senator cornyn and then senator menendez. >> thank you, madam secretary, for joining us today. first of all, i wanted to ask you, when it comes to negotiating a global minimum tax with the g7, what do you and the administration see the role of congress of being? >> any agreement that we are able to reach, the g7 is just one group, and an important group that's expressed support for this approach. the largest group involved is the oecd. negotiations have been going on there for many years. anything that affects u.s. tax law must be enacted by u.s. congress, so congress plays a critical role. >> thank you. the administration has proposed to make spending for the irs mandatory spending, but as you know, the appropriations process is an important part of congressional oversight into agencies like the irs. are you endorsing this idea that congress will be removed from oversight of the internal revenue service? >> no, i have no such thou

and senator grassley has a bill and senator hawley. all the members of the committee have been busy working on solutions. dow jones that anti-trust reform proposal would be helpful to address some issues that we've discussed today? could contribute to the development of a more open and competitive connected home technology markets? and what exactly would be helpful? >> there's no question about that, senator. enormously helpful. the bipartisan house bill that addresses interoperability has terrific language in it that goes right to the questions that we've been talking about here. we'd also welcome reform of the predatory pricing standard, where it get at the issue of cross-subsidizization that senator hawley was focused on and currently adopted in the supreme court, has a recruitment rule. >> yes, i'm aware. >> and also, really doesn't have the right formula for calculating price for software environment where the marginal cost of software is basically zero. we'd welcome reform in that area as well as just generally the nondiscriminat

senator booker and then senator grassley. >> thank you very much. i'd like to put some questions towards my friend dr. hendrickson. covid really showed how fragile our food system is. we see the system really break down in pretty stunning ways. consumers were paying higher prices for meat while ranchers were paid less for their cattle, but the big consolidated companies made record profits. covid didn't create this problem. it shined a light on what was going on. many witnesses talked about how there is record concentration going on right now in the meat packing industry, tyson, jbs and national beef control more than 80% of all the u.s. beef processing. i've been concerned about these extreme levels of concentration for years and, as you know, have introduced a number of bills to try to deal with that, bills with multiple colleagues on both sides of the aisle. senator tester and i put together a bill that would stop these ag mergers. i introduced the farm system reform including prohibition on meatpackers to have cattle more than seven days prior t

senator grassley and my bill to change the merger fees, filing structure that that has now just passed senate as part of a major bill in the last week. that bill is now going over to the house. we have everying reason to believe it will a pass, and then we have to work through the appropriations and budget process for more resources. secondly, updating our antitrust laws. as i mentioned, we all have some good ideas on that front, but that has to be part of the solution. and, third, federal privacy legislation. let me be clear, this isn't is about punishing success or going after companies just because they are growing. this is about learning from what we have seen in the recent past. instead of just complaining about it after the fact, we have a chance to include what we know about this market as we look at legislation and enforcement actions going forward. i want to thank you so much, and i turn it over to senator lee. >> one of the questions it raises is whether smart home devices will just provide for one more way for big tech firms to expand their already significant market power.

chuck grassley, the 80 something that everyone is waiting.showing everybody that you're still ready enough for the job, but i thought i saw you doing push ups there on the stage i believe it was with senator tom cotton, i know you've also said on the record you're not going to announce your decision until september or october, do you have one for us here today? >> no, but if you want me on when i'm ready to make that announcement, i would be glad to give you first shot at it. >> that would be wonderful and we would appreciate that, senator. please come back. we will be right back. >> i want to see him do a one-handed push-up. coming up next, the doj takes on allegation she was selling fake covid vaccination cards. stay with us. newday's low rate refi offers their lowest rate in history. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. save thousands every year and there are no upfront costs. not one dollar. the newday low rate refi. take advantage of these record low rates so you and your family can save. i'm not hungry! you're having one more bite!

grassley: i ask that the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: every state of the nation has many infrastructure needs. in iowa, we rely on our roads, bridges, air, and freight to move our goods and people throughout iowa, throughout the united states, and eventually throughout the world. i'm encouraged that a bipartisan framework has been agreed to for moving forward on an infrastructure bill. i'll be interested in seeing more details about the policy and the way to pay for the bill, as the bill proceeds forward. today i would like to discuss one aspect of infrastructure, and that's our inland waterways. for iowa, that's the mississippi and missouri rivers. for other states, it's a lot of other important rivers. i ask my colleagues to take this important mode of transportation into account as they work on legislation. i've also sent this request in letter to both the senate environment and public works as well as the appropriations committees. the inland and intercoastal waterways and our p

. >> thank you chuck grassley for taking it easy on me. >> we don't expect anything to come from the >> shannon: watch fox news on sunday. thanks for watching "special report." join me for fox news at night. but fox news prime time will start in a minute. his final night and he might have something to say about a new book out next week. jesse watters. have a great weekend. >> my new book. happy july 4th. welcome to fox news prime time. >> ♪ ♪ >> i am jesse watters. independence day is this weekend. most americans are celebrating freedom, joe biden is business celebration himself. specifically the great economy he claims he created. our commander-in-chief said cookouts are 16 cents cheaper than last year. and that's prove his

i want to thank the vice president and the second gentleman, senators durbin and baldwin and grassleyes nadler and fitzpatrick and jackson-lee and wagner and s scanlan. when someone commits a crime, it's not enough to bring the predator to justice. we also need to support the victims. way back 150 years ago when i was chairman of the judiciary committee, we spent a lot of time working on and setting up victims' funds. that's what this crime victims fund does. i've visited an awful lot of domestic violence shelters. every time i went to a city, i'd quietly slip in and spend time in a domestic violence shelter to speak to the people giving the services and the people getting the services. many times the body language you'd see when you walked in was one of the victims of crime find themselves almost curled up in a ball. they were still suffering from a serious, serious not only physical abuse they received, but quite frankly, the emotional abuse. you can see the pain. you can see the pain was still with them and you wondered when is this going to abate no matter what we did. according t

senator grassley requested secret services records from 2009 and 2014, the day after time magazine articleshed talking about barisma and supposedly ended the secret services protection and peter is right. subsequent emails from computer show that he was talking about secret services protection not only in 2015 but we also know that the secret services intervened when his -- his sister-in-law he was having an affair with dumped his gun off in the dumpster and the secret services went to try to get the background check information with the gun owner or the gun shop owner. so the secret services -- and we have asked for request for information on that and they have no records of it, once again, we subpoenaed the fbi director wray, we basically didn't get squat. now secret service, they gave us initial records and past that they haven't given us squat. the agencies are covering for the bidens and they have always been covering for them even though he ended secret sercive protection. -- service and i sent two letters with 5 members of the homeland security committee on it. there's a law that sa

getting back to hunter biden, senator chuck grassley and ron johnson incident report on hundreds of tripsaniment on his business deals overseas, numerous trips so your final word on that. what you say? >> these things are very inappropriate. i want you to stay on this, we w need you to stay on this story, we will stay on the story best we can, america needs to know what things are takingst place within the administration. elizabeth: thank you for joining us. next up, this tory, fist debate, texas governor said biden's border start by president harris is apprehending the border crisis only talking about getting at rootde causes in central america when illegal aliens are pouring in from 147 countries from around the worldr that story from next. >> now we have an open, really dangerous border more dangerous than it's ever been in the history of our country. ry♪♪ (announcer) back pain hurts. you can spend thousands and still not get relief. now there's aerotrainer by golo. you can stretch and strengthen your core, relieve back pain, and tone your entire body. (man) and you're stretching your

now senator is at johnson and grassley are demanding to know why 59 of the 96 phones used by mueller'sm are still missing. joining us now with morris house minority whip steve scalise with congressman andy biggs. gentlemen, thank you so much foo joining with us tonight. i got to serve with both of these fine gentlemen in the united states congress when i was there but i left. steve scalise, i just called him steve but we will call him congressman. the idea is they are slow walking flight and for the death. i mean, when does the department of justice do that? advice on what they are supposed to bear doing. >> first, we miss you and alice jason, it's good to be with you but, like you pointed out then it surely never get president trump this opportunity and when they were leaking out information that turned out to be false from some of these federal agents. a he is a little alone and investigation that seems to be credible and ongoing. the real question is, what has happened with the investigation? did they pick it back up again? so when you look at that question put to have a question wh

hurdle here is not the predictable ancients in congress who still feel reefer madness located chuck grassley way your name has grass in it so lighten it up. the weirdo warmonger like jeanne shaheen who are all too willing too back social conservatives unblocking beetle for a form, thank you and shay minute genie. the achilles' heel of the bills 10% federal tax which will shoot up to 25% in year five, that is a handwritten invitation to expand the black market defeating the purpose of federally decriminalizing or legalizing weed at all. sure, legal marijuana brings in $6.9 billion in tax revenue but imagine how much more spending could be offset well intentioned politicians were not so damn greedy. even when it comes to the evolution policy taxation is best since flapping syntaxes on things are high in demand is unchecked and dangerous supply. their hearts on the right place but senators are still dealing with all of the feeble minds of both parties who are happy to send basic double liberties up in smoke, that is the memo. so for new jersey center cory booker today made the case to finally e

senator ron johnson, sounds suspicious to me, especially in light of what you and senator grassley haved us about. >> it's highly suspicious, sean. his travel records from the secret service, where hunter biden had secret service protection for about 5 1/2 years. during that time period he made 70 trips overseas. think about that. that's about a tripper month. my question is, what was he seg? most international business people have a product or real service that they are selling. other than the biden family name, pedaling influence, what was hunter biden doing? this is before he became the 21st century picasso. this stinks to high heaven, and the only reason it's not getting more scrutiny in the mainstream press is because the mainstream media is part and parcel of the democratic party. they are the communication arm of the democratic party. they are not going to even look at this much less be concerned about it. >> sean: but this is the thing. if you are firing americans from high paying keystone xl pipeline jobs, with the stroke of a pen but you're giving a waiver to putin and you're

. >> harold: we watched chuck grassley due 20 plus push-ups and you're telling me the air force can'ting a hard time because that's where they get their pilots. >> dagen: they don't want to work for american. >> greg: how unamerican. >> dagen: all of his seal team members were at the wedding and all of them were super skinny and you had no idea because they had to be able to do a dead man carry out of battle. you have to be able to pick up another person and carry them. >> greg: had been carrying the show forever. counted! >> dagen: yes you have paid up next, britney spears battle to break free just hit a major roadblock. ♪ ♪ life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. ♪ ♪ >> harold: britney spears battle for freedom hitting a major roadblock, a jazz has denied the singers request to end her father's control over her estate. despite her dramatic testimony last week where she said she wasn't allowed to get married or