And I don't want to put you on the spot, but the Sixty Plus organization that views themselves as the conservative alternative to AARP, do you know how many dues-paying members the Sixty Plus organization has?

This just smacks of political retribution.

I wasn't with you in 2004 when you were supporting the Medicare Modernization Act, which also created the new prescription drug benefit plan for seniors, and the main reason I wasn't was because it was largest expansion of entitlement…

This appears to be a form of selective retribution or political retribution here.

I hope this is not an effort to try to silence voices of people who represent seniors in America.

The health care bill cuts Medicare Advantage by $206 billion, and those cuts are going to result in millions of seniors no longer selecting Medicare Advantage coverage either because those plans will no longer be available to some seniors…

We are a week away from a government shutdown where this House has been unable to reconcile its differences with the President.

It appears to be a document that was prepared without the committee staff's full participation.

If you are going to get to forgo having to pay those taxes that an otherwise established enterprise has to pay, we should make sure that the public is getting some benefit for it.

the budget bill that was passed by this House, H.R. 1, by the Republican majority a few weeks back, would cut $600 million out of your budget, which you said would cost us in revenues, because of lower tax collections--proper and…

I also want to make sure I emphasize again something else you said, because there is a need to dispel this rumor, this myth floating out there, that the money that IRS needs to try to implement this new patient's bill of rights is somehow…

there was no direction in the budget bill that cuts the $600 million as to how you could do it in a way that would not undermine services.

Because as we have served on this subcommittee in the past, that has been one issue I have raised quite often, with regard to the non-profit, charitable world, is are they, in fact, providing a service, a public good, that pays for the…

Yes. In a March 31, 2011 letter to Forest Service Leaders, Chief Tidwell affirmed the Forest Service's commitment.

I am amazed that the White House will not use that term.

We are spending $15 billion in 2010 to fight this war on drugs when there is no war on drugs.

We cannot accommodate your budget request, especially when these requests will be used to prove that global warming is going to kill us all, polar bears included.

This is unfortunate, because it seems that all the stakeholders were working together to reach a satisfactory and sustainable agreement.