Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks: "We were at the White House last week to talk about, with other industries as well as many pharma companies, the expansion of manufacturing in the U.S. It was good to see yesterday the executive order streamlining that process."
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Before we get to the new plant, tell me about your meeting with the president. Yeah, I did. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Today, I'm visiting one of our labs here in Indianapolis, and as you mentioned later today, we're doing the big groundbreaking. Yeah, we were at the White House last week to talk about, with other industries as well as many pharma companies, the expansion of manufacturing in the U.S., and it was good to see yesterday the executive order streamlining that process, which as you know, regulatory delay can take up to half the time to produce a new site. So that's slowing us down. We need to go faster than that in America, and we're pleased to see that news because Lilly's currently building six new sites and about to announce four more. So just in time for the work we need to do.
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