When I think about how to sustain my own energy doing this work, I think about kids who have asthma that can't afford inhalers, their families can't afford inhalers. And my senator, Tammy Baldwin, who we just reelected, she went after the drug companies that had massively jacked up the prices and got them to bring them down. just basically by asking them why did the price go up so much and implicitly threatening that the government would actually do something about it. And there are kids, my kids have asthma. (40:25–40:33)
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