Energy & Commerce Democrats
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Fighting to protect health care, lower costs, defend consumers, and lead the clean energy transition under Ranking Member @FrankPallone
The national average price of gasoline stands at $3.93/gal, now up 99c/gal from a month ago, with diesel at $5.16/gal, up $1.47/gal from a month ago. Combining spending on gasoline and diesel, Americans are paying ~$575 million more every day compared to a month ago.
🚨NEW ANALYSIS: Pharma is hiking the prices of rare disease drugs after Medicare protections were weakened in the 2025 Reconciliation Package 🚨 In the first week of January, pharmaceutical companies raised prices on 208 drugs used to treat rare diseases, with over 80% of those hikes exceeding inflation. These hikes come as Congress has weakened Medicare drug price negotiation for rare disease drugs through the ORPHAN Cures Act. For patients like Ginny, who lives with LEMS and relies on Firdapse, her medication would have been eligible for negotiation before the ORPHAN Cures. Now, it is not. Congress removed one of the only tools available to lower the cost of the very drugs she relies on. The ORPHAN Cures Act does not protect patients with rare diseases. It protects pharmaceutical profits. Learn more and take action at P4AD.ORG
Factories continue to shed workers, with 98,000 manufacturing jobs lost during the president's first full 12 months back in the White House. to.pbs.org/3NwD8dl
EPA moves to weaken limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas — NYT
By getting the facts wrong, the law wrong, and the policy wrong, Democrats on the Commerce Committee have succeeded in meeting expectations for Democrats on the Commerce Committee.
