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"Allowing countries to manufacture locally will expedite access to vaccines and treatment, prevent unnecessary deaths, expedite global vaccination efforts, and facilitate a stronger, faster economic recovery."

Surveys have shown that the idea of lowering the Medicare eligibility age—which has been at 65 or older since the program's inception in 1965—is popular with the American public.

"Walmart, which pays its CEO nearly 1,000 times more than its average worker, would pay up to $855 million more in taxes."

We need to be prepared for the next pandemic, and we can't be under the current for-profit system.

At present, the U.S.—along with other wealthy nations where major pharmaceutical companies are based—is blocking India and South Africa's push for a patent waiver, which industry lobbying groups are mobilizing to crush.

"A Republican minority shouldn't be allowed to hold the nation's economic recovery and public health hostage."

"Let's show her that Georgia voters will not be silenced or ignored."

"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."

"It would be unconscionable, especially after the House did the right thing, for the Senate to simply leave Washington without voting on this."

"The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP."