Washington –Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) delivered remarks during a Republican leadership press conference about the Democrats’ disastrous prescription drug pricing plan, where she highlighted Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s track record of pursuing a far-left partisan agenda instead of working across the aisle to solve our country’s biggest problems. Click here to watch her full remarks and see the transcript below:

REP. LIZ CHENEY: Thank you very much Whip Scalise and Leader McCarthy. I want to also add my voice, my condolences and my prayers for Whip Clyburn and his family, as well as for Cokie Roberts’ family. It’s really a tremendous loss, and we want everyone to know they are in our thoughts and our prayers.

I’ve just come, just now, from our Conference Committee for the NDAA, and as we come to talk here this morning to talk about what the Speaker is doing about prescription drug prices, having come from that NDAA Conference, it’s very clear and it’s a really important reminder that we face huge issues as a nation. The American people sent us here in order to come up with solutions and the Speaker has a choice to make and she continues to make the choice on the side of partisanship. It’s one thing to be pushing for a set of issues, to be pushing for a set of partisan solutions in an atmosphere where bipartisan agreement is not possible, but on this issue of prescription drug prices, every one of us hears around the country about the impact that this is having on people. 

We know this is an issue that we have got to solve. The White House has stepped forward, they’ve taken action, and as we’ll hear in a minute from Representative Walden, we had bipartisan agreement on three bills that could have not only passed the House, but also passed the Senate and have gone to the President’s desk for signature. So there is simply no way to make the case that what the Speaker is doing is attempting to solve the problem when she had the opportunity to put those bills on the floor by themselves and we know we would have gotten them passed.

So we really urge our colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle, and particularly the leadership on the Democratic side of the aisle, to recognize the important issues we were sent here to address, to recognize the important moments we face on a national security front, as well as with respect to the economy and with respect to healthcare. We want the American people to know that we’re fighting for them, that we’re going to continue to do that, that we’re going to continue to stand against efforts like this prescription drug bill, like Medicare-for-All, that will reduce the quality of care, reduce people’s access to care, increase the price, reduce innovation—all things that will make life harder for the American people. I think it’s really sad and it’s too bad that instead of coming to the table and addressing those issues in a bipartisan way, the Speaker has decided that she’s not going to do that, she’s going to just try and make a point and play a game with an issue that really matters to people.