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S. 527119th CongressCommerce
Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) · 13 active : 7 Republicans, 6 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 42.
Where it standsBefore the Senate5 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPrescription Pricing for the People Act of 20
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This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to report about anticompetitive practices and other trends within the pharmaceutical supply chain that may impact the cost of prescription drugs.
The report must address whether pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) (1) reimburse pharmacies owned by the PBM at a higher price than other pharmacies, and (2) implement formulary designs to increase the market share of higher-cost prescription drugs or depress the market share of lower-cost prescription drugs.
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The FTC also must provide recommendations to increase transparency in the supply chain, prevent anticompetitive practices, and ensure that consumers benefit from cost savings or efficiencies that result from mergers and consolidations.
Additionally, the FTC must report the number and nature of complaints the FTC receives relating to an allegation of anticompetitive conduct by a manufacturer of a sole-source drug.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Business ethics
- Business records
- Competition and antitrust
- Congressional oversight
- Consumer affairs
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health information and medical records
- Inflation and prices
- Prescription drugs
- Retail and wholesale trades
- Supply chain
How the Senate breaks down
- 5Swing 70–100
- 56Middle 30–70
- 39Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
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- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
