The House Energy & Commerce Committee voted unanimously Wednesday (April 3) for six bills to cut drug prices after Democrats agreed to changes sought by Republicans to CREATES and pay-for-delay bills. Democrats eliminated a measure that would have made past drug patent settlements illegal, agreed to GOP-backed changes to the CREATES bill that strengthen brand-drug makers’ defense against lawsuits, and scrapped language in a third bill that would have removed patents for drug-delivery devices from the Orange Book. “I am...