Inside Drug Pricing - 07/06/2020

9 GOP Senators, No Democrats, Co-Sponsor Tweaked Grassley Drug Bill

By John Wilkerson / July 2, 2020 at 8:17 PM
Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley on Thursday (July 2) re-introduced drug pricing legislation that is structurally unchanged from the version passed by Finance last summer, but none of the Democrats who previously voted for it are co-sponsors. At one point, 12 GOP senators said they supported the Iowa Republican’s bill, and Grassley predicted another dozen would follow suit, but just nine fellow party members co-sponsored S. 2543. “To be clear, cosponsors aren’t the same as supporters. Several other senators...


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