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Sen. Murray on Alexander: "I miss him a lot...He was somebody I could talk with privately or sit down and work with and there was a mutual respect. It has been very difficult here without people like him.” notus.org/analysis/lamar…

About 70,000 people died of drug overdoses in the US in 2025, down from about 81,000 in 2024, per new preliminary CDC data cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…

Interesting praise of Makary from a Dem, Sen. Durbin, who is very active on the vaping issue: "I hope Dr. Makary will inspire others within the Trump Administration to grow a spine and put the families of America ahead of blind loyalty to this President."

Michigan Senate candidate wants to “eliminate PBMs” and “Create a Public, Nonprofit Pharmacy Benefit Administrator”

Interesting choices from NYT on five essential Taylor Swift songs nytimes.com/interactive/20…

W&M Chair Jason Smith says "hospitals are charging an insane amount for care" at hearing w hospital ceo's "Every time we try to advance these so called site neutral policies, big hospitals they fight us, they fight us tooth and nail."

New campaign ad for Cassidy says "Senator Bill Cassidy put a stop to surprise medical billing" youtube.com/watch?v=19MOMt…

"Bobby, you're doing a fantastic job. We wanted somebody out of the box and we got him, right? I would say we got him," Trump says of RFK

"Chris Klomp has been unbelievable, a real star," Trump says "You don't know his name as much as some of the others, but he's a real star of the group." re HHS chief counselor

"By itself we should win the midterms but it doesn't work that way unfortunately," Trump says of his most favored nation drug price deals

👀 "mRNA technology is very very promising in certain areas like pancreatic cancer," RFK says (Not for covid vaccines, he says tho)

RFK brings up the AI cancer dog story "I just was reading about a dog that had cancer and his owner used AI to develop a personalized treatment that cured the cancer. We're going to see that now in medicine, across medicine and we're very excited about it."

Sen. Murray entering into the record lots of news articles about RFK breaking promises to Cassidy at hearing with RFK and Cassidy

Murkowski says she was just in Fairbanks, Alaska which had 152 consecutive days of temperatures below zero (Talking about importance of heating aid/(LIHEAP to RFK)

Finance Chairman Mike Crapo says he thinks RFK is doing an "outstanding job" as secretary

GOP Sen. Barrasso brings up RFK vaccine changes at hearing. "I think that there's been more confusion for families and for providers" from the changes, he says Barrasso also expressed concern at last hearing in sept

SC Sen. Tim Scott praising RFK response to measles outbreak in his state "South Carolina is indebted to your leadership."

Interesting to hear Dem Sen. Merkley express interest in Congress codifying Trump MFN drug price deals. He asks RFK to give details to Congress to help draft a bill RFK says Chris Klomp will talk to him

Rep. Troy Carter tells RFK to spend "more time thinking about the American people and less time talking about whale heads, bear heads and raccoon parts." RFK: "I don't talk about any of those things, it's you guys who are all talking about it."

Civil back/forth btw AOC, RFK, he agrees w a lot, re Medicare Advantage payment to insurers "We're giving them $13bn when they are stealing $80bn a year as it is. I say we let them eat it."-AOC RFK: "blowback" warned of "places where you cannot get insurance" if insurers left