U.S. State Attorneys General

We're not going to stand back and let seniors, people with disabilities, most low-income vulnerable people in this country, bear the brunt of this fiscal entanglement.

They are being punished for something they never did.

It is the excessive and overly burdensome regulation that we are concerned with.

The idea that people on this side of the aisle are anti-regulations per se is just nonsense.

I want them to have clean air, and I want them to have clean water.

The DI shortfall, by the way, is not a surprise.

How do we make the Social Security Administration, working with this Disability Insurance Program, be as effective as possible partnering with the business community

We have to remember that this is a population that has a disability severe enough that in many cases, as I think Miss Ford mentioned, many of them die within a few years of applying for the benefit.

It is not easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits.

Severely disabled American workers have earned the right to receive disability benefits and they rely on them.

I know it seems like it is somewhat rare to get a chance to come together on a bipartisan basis to do something good for the American people.

Well, that is probably one of the most important things that can come out of this hearing, is an assurance that, one way or the other, as we move forward on this transition, that no American is going to be left behind.

But our number-one goal should be to make sure that every single American receives the Social Security benefits that he or she earned on time and in full.

Isn't it the fact that if there is some legitimate government interest to somehow take a different tack on defining what a religious organization is, doesn't the First Amendment still trump all that?

Let's find out the facts. Let's not stonewall this issue and cover up mistakes as appears to be happening today.

What is clear is that this administration, including the President himself, has intentionally misinformed, read that 'lied,' to the American people in the aftermath of this tragedy.

We should try to go backward because the reality is it is not just about trying to help 33 million Americans.

I appreciate where you point out where IRS can do better and where it is doing the best it can.

So as you work through the 2014 budget, you have already looked at the impact of the caps with the caps in place?

But you do know that under the BCA [Budget Control Act], there are going to be caps, and the caps are not--well, they don't look like you are going to be able to recoup any of this.

I don't think there is any doubt that, at least in this House--and I got to believe our colleagues in the Senate would agree--that it really is time, as Mr. Bertoni said, for CMS to catch up and remove the number from the card.

The RAISE Act would reward hard work.

The Secret Ballot Protection Act will end the assault on the secret ballot once and for all.

When you have got small town mayors asking, begging for Federal money to build something completely unrelated to anything in the Federal Government, it is because we have taken so much of their money in the first place, and we have created…