| PRESS
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| Statement on H.Res. 776, A Resolution of Inquiry Relating to Medicare Prescription Drug Law Costs |
9/30/2004 |
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| Rep. Allen Promotes Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Prescription Drugs |
9/8/2004 |
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| U.S. Australia Free Trade Agreement |
7/14/2004 |
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| Rep. Allen Joins in Call for Discharge of Bill to Guarantee Real Rx Drug Price Discounts |
7/14/2004 |
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| Statement on the Death of Viola “Vi” Quirion |
4/20/2004 |
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| Statement on Today’s Report from the Medicare Trustees |
3/23/2004 |
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| Rep. Allen: Revelations Show Flawed Medicare Law the “Result of a Corrupted Process” |
3/16/2004 |
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| HHS Secretary Tells Rep. Allen Research Deadlines on Rx Drug Comparative Effectiveness to Be Met |
3/10/2004 |
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| Rep. Allen Details Misinformation in Controversial, Taxpayer-Funded Medicare Ads |
2/13/2004 |
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| Statement on the Completion of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement |
2/10/2004 |
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| Rep. Allen Urges HHS Secretary to Support Repeal of Ban on Deals for Medicare Drugs |
12/18/2003 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Introduces Bipartisan State and Local Access to Fair Rx Drug Prices Act |
12/11/2003 |
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| Statement on the H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act Conference Report |
11/21/2003 |
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| Reps. Allen and Michaud Urge Congress to Include Price Negotiation in Any Prescription Drug Benefit |
11/3/2003 |
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| Medicare “Cost Containment” |
10/30/2003 |
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| Statement on Deadline Passing for Medicare Rx Drug Conference Report |
10/17/2003 |
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| At Biddeford Town Meeting, Rep. Tom Allen Outlines Concerns about Medicare Legislation |
8/20/2003 |
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| On Medicare’s Anniversary, Rep. Tom Allen Urges Public to Speak Out on the Program’s Future |
7/30/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen: Re-importation “Begs the Question:” Why Not the Same Prices for Americans? |
7/24/2003 |
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| Statement by on House votes on the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements |
7/24/2003 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: New U.S. PIRG Study “Reinforces the Need for Federal Action to Rein in Rx Drug Prices” |
7/15/2003 |
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| U.S. Representative Tom Allen to Headline Press Conference on New PIRG Rx Drug Cost Study |
7/14/2003 |
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| Episode 3: Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill |
7/11/2003 |
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Floor Statement on
H.R. 2631, Federal Retirees’ Prescription Drug Benefits |
7/8/2003 |
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Statement on the
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act
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6/27/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen Proposes Amendments to “Convoluted, Bureaucratic” Republican Rx Drug Bill |
6/26/2003 |
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Statement for Press Conference
on Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act |
6/24/2003 |
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| U.S. Rep. Tom Allen Promotes Bill to Provide Research on Rx Drug Comparative Effectiveness |
6/23/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen Proposes Amendments to “Complex, Unfair” Republican Rx Drug Bill |
6/18/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen: Medicare Rx Drug Benefit Must Be “Fair, Stable, Predictable and Affordable for All Seniors” |
6/17/2003 |
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| Reps. Allen and Emerson Introduce Prescription Drug Comparative Effectiveness Act |
6/11/2003 |
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| Reps. Allen and Michaud Hail U.S. Supreme Court Decision Allowing Maine Rx Program to Proceed |
5/19/2003 |
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Testimony on Amendment to H.R. 1298, The Leadership Against
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003
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4/30/2003 |
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Reps. Allen and Berry to Co-Chair House
Affordable Medicines Task Force
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3/26/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen Says Bush’s Prescription Plan is Bad for Maine |
3/5/2003 |
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| Reps. Allen and Michaud Co-Sponsor “Tri-Partisan” Bill to Protect Americans’ Right to Internet Purchase of Canadian Prescription Drugs |
2/27/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen Urges HHS Secretary Thompson to Reinstate “Healthy Maine Prescriptions” Program |
2/12/2003 |
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| U.S. Representative Tom Allen Chosen for Committee on Energy & Commerce |
1/9/2003 |
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| Rep. Allen Introduces Bill to Remove Special Interest Rx Industry Provision from Homeland Security Law |
1/8/2003 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Urges House to Act Now to Reduce Rx Drug Prices, Encourage Industry Competition |
9/18/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: Lack of Medicare Rx Drug Benefit Threatens to Overwhelm VA System |
7/22/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen to Join in Hearing to Examine VA Rx Drug Benefit Program |
7/19/2002 |
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| Rep. Allen: America’s Seniors “Pay the Price, Suffer the Consequences” of Soaring Rx Drug Company Profits |
7/17/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: New Administration Report Regurgitates Rx Drug Industry Arguments |
7/11/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen “Profoundly Disappointed That Seniors Must Wait for a Real Rx Drug Benefit” |
6/28/2002 |
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| Rep. Allen: “No Contest; Maine Seniors Fare Best Under the Democratic Rx Drug Proposal” |
6/25/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: GOP Rx Drug Bill “What the Drug Companies Paid For, Not the Real Medicare Benefit Seniors Need” |
6/24/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: Republican Rx Benefit Plan “Offers the Illusion of Coverage, Not the Medicare Benefit Seniors Need” |
6/18/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Supports Rx Drug Benefit Bill Free of “Gaps and Gimmicks” |
6/13/2002 |
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Rep. Tom Allen Joins Colleagues to Support
“Rx Express” Campaign for Lower Drug Prices |
6/6/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: New Study Adds to Evidence of Need for Legislation to Study Rx Drug Effectiveness |
5/29/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Introduces Legislation to Reduce Rx Drug Spending, Protect Patients from Misleading Ads |
5/23/2002 |
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Rep. Tom Allen: “Republican Budget Priorities Are Not Maine's Priorities”
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3/20/2002 |
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Rep. Tom Allen Criticizes Latest
Bush Discount Rx Drug Card Proposal |
3/1/2002 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: Seniors Need a Real Rx Drug Discount, Not a “Pretty Card” |
2/22/2002 |
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Cost Containment Is Key to Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, Testifies Rep. Tom Allen
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2/14/2002 |
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| Allen Blasts Bush for Broken Promise |
8/28/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Calls Pharmaceutical Industry R&D; Claims “False” |
7/23/2001 |
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| Representatives Allen and Baldacci Introduce Legislation to Preserve Maine’s Prescription Drug Program |
7/17/2001 |
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| Rep. Allen: “President Bush’s Principles Will Erode Medicare’s Safety Net” |
7/12/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Speaks at Press Conference Supporting Patients’ Bill of Rights |
6/28/2001 |
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Rep. Tom Allen Releases New
Rx Drug Price Study |
6/15/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: "As Prescription Drug Costs Climb, Relief for Seniors Becomes More Urgent" |
5/8/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: "The Bush Budget Is Bad for Maine" |
4/18/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen to Hold Meeting on Prescription Drugs at Betsy Ross House in South Portland |
4/5/2001 |
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Rep. Tom Allen Introduces the
Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2001 |
4/4/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: "President Bush's Tax Cut Says ‘Forget It' to All Americans" |
3/8/2001 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Will Consider Legislation to Authorize States to Negotiate Rx Drug Prices |
10/27/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen Decries Removal of Bipartisan Rx Drug Re-importation Plan from Agriculture Appropriations Measure |
10/11/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Opposes Latest Tax Cut Proposals, Says Raid on Budget Surplus Threatens Medicare |
7/27/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen Condemns Pharmaceutical Industry Campaign to Defeat Rx Drug Proposals as a "Disgrace" |
7/26/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: Latest Round of HMO Pullouts Further Proves Republican Rx Plan Won't Work |
6/29/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen: "Congress Disappointed America's Seniors and Missed an Historic Opportunity to Provide Affordable Prescription Drug Coverage" |
6/28/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen: "Labor-HHS-ED Spending Bill Represents the Wrong Choices for America, the Wrong Priorities for America's Families" |
6/15/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen: "CallYourGrandma.Com" Exploits Children to Justify Drug Industry Price Discrimination |
5/25/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen to Release Breast Cancer Prescription Drug Price Study |
4/25/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen: "No Excuse for the Hurdles Our Veterans Must Now Face to Access High Quality Health Care" |
4/10/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen: HHS Study "Confirms That Pharmaceutical Companies Discriminate against Seniors" |
4/10/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: "Pharmaceutical Profit ‘Cloud' Has a Silver Lining, and America's Seniors Pay the Price" |
4/5/2000 |
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| Rep. Allen Calls President's Medicare Report "Stunning Evidence of the Need for Action Now to Guarantee Seniors Quality, Affordable Health Care Including Prescription Drug Coverage" |
2/29/2000 |
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| "We Are the Wealthiest Nation in the World at the Most Prosperous Moment in Our History. If We Do Not Solve Our Health Care Challenges Now, Then When?" |
2/23/2000 |
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| Radio Actualities Now Available |
2/16/2000 |
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| Rep. Tom Allen: "We're Asking All the Presidential Candidates to Get on the Bus" |
1/18/2000 |
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| Episode 4: Agriculture Appropriations bill |
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| ARTICLES
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| "New Medicare Law Deeply Flawed" (Maine Sunday Telegram, 4/11/04) |
4/11/2004 |
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| "States becoming labs for health spending reforms" (The Hill) |
2/25/2004 |
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| NEWS ALERT! |
2/13/2004 |
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| "So What Medicare Reform Did Congress Pass" (Bangor Daily News) |
2/7/2004 |
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| "Medicare Index" |
1/28/2004 |
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| "Reforming Medicare Worse than Doing Nothing" (special to the Bangor Daily News, 1/9/04) |
1/9/2004 |
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"The Wrong Prescription for Pricing Drugs"
Steven Pearlman column in the Washington Post |
6/25/2003 |
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| “We Lead, Nation Retreats” (“op ed” for the Kennebec Journal and Central Maine Morning Sentinel) |
6/24/2003 |
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| “The Prescription Drug Program for Veterans: A Model and Victim of Success” (Message to Maine, 8/3/02) |
8/2/2002 |
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"Drug industry spends huge sums guarding prices"
(AARP Bulletin, 5/02) |
5/3/2002 |
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| “Prescription Drug Ads: What’s Wrong with this Picture?” |
2/1/2002 |
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| “Aid to seniors falls prey to lobbying, tax cuts” (Special to the Portland Press Herald, 12/29/01) |
12/29/2001 |
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| “An Unhealthy Pressure on Maine’s Small Businesses” |
6/9/2001 |
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"In Maine, Small Business is Everyone's Business"
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9/9/2000 |
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"Prescription Drug Prices: Schemes to Escalate, Ways to Lower"
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8/5/2000 |
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"Appropriate Appropriations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture"
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7/22/2000 |
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"Secret Money Targeted"
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6/30/2000 |
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| "Congress: Looking Back, Looking Forward" |
1/8/2000 |
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"Why So Expensive?"
CBS News 60 Minutes |
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| SPEECHES
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| Statement on H.Res. 776, A Resolution of Inquiry Relating to Medicare Prescription Drug Law Costs |
9/30/2004 |
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| U.S. Australia Free Trade Agreement |
7/14/2004 |
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| Statement on the Death of Viola “Vi” Quirion |
4/20/2004 |
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| Statement on Today’s Report from the Medicare Trustees |
3/23/2004 |
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| Statement on the Completion of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement |
2/10/2004 |
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| Statement on the H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act Conference Report |
11/21/2003 |
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| Medicare “Cost Containment” |
10/30/2003 |
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| Statement on Deadline Passing for Medicare Rx Drug Conference Report |
10/17/2003 |
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| Statement by on House votes on the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements |
7/24/2003 |
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Floor Statement on
H.R. 2631, Federal Retirees’ Prescription Drug Benefits |
7/8/2003 |
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Statement on the
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act
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6/27/2003 |
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Statement for Press Conference
on Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act |
6/24/2003 |
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| H.R. 2356, The Prescription Drug Comparative Effectiveness Act |
6/23/2003 |
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Opening Statement
House Energy & Commerce Committee Mark-up of
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 |
6/17/2003 |
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Testimony on Amendment to H.R. 1298, The Leadership Against
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003
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4/30/2003 |
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From “Me” to “We” for Better Health,
Remarks by U.S. Representative Tom Allen,
Families U.S.A. Conference,
January 25, 2003 |
1/25/2003 |
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| The Accuracy in Prescription Drug Advertising Act & The Prescription Drug Comparative Effectiveness Act |
5/23/2002 |
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| Special Order on a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (5/20/02) |
5/21/2002 |
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| “Access and Innovation: Restoring Balance in U.S. Trade Policy” (speech to the International Generic Pharmaceutical Association, 4/11/02) |
4/11/2002 |
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Testimony of Congressman Tom Allen
Before the House Budget Committee
on the Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2003
February 14, 2002 |
2/14/2002 |
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Statement of U.S. Representative Tom Allen
Release of Public Citizen Study Why the Drug Industry’s “R&D; Scare Card” Does Not Justify High Prices
July 23, 2001 |
7/23/2001 |
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Statement by Representative Tom Allen (D-ME)
on the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act of 2001
Senate Swamp
June 28, 2001 |
6/28/2001 |
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| "The Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2001" |
4/4/2001 |
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Press Conference to Release the
Congress Watch Report “Citizens for Better Medicare: The Truth Behind the Drug Industry’s Deception of America’s Seniors” |
6/20/2000 |
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Remarks by
U. S. Representative Tom Allen
“CallYourGrandma.Com” Exploits Children to Justify Drug Industry Price Discrimination
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5/25/2000 |
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| "Prescription Drug Discounts for Military Retirees" |
5/17/2000 |
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House Committee on Ways and Means
Concerning a Prescription Drug Benefit for Medicare Beneficiaries
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1/13/2000 |
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