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Grassley says he doesn't support changing USMCA to address drug prices

By Hannah Monicken  / February 14, 2019 at 6:31 PM
Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Tuesday that while he supports efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs, he does not back changes to pharmaceutical provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Democrats have suggested. "I'm with the Democrats on doing something about the cost of prescription drugs and I could list you six or seven things that we could do that we would agree on, but I don't want to do anything to mess around with USMCA," he...

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