I think some of the challenges that we are seeing in Washington State may allude to a bigger problem.

I had one prayer. I said, 'God, do not let me die before I vote for it.'

This is a can-do nation. And we need to definitely do when it comes to the health of every single American.

Thank you for my constituents. Thank you for constituents--our constituents all over this country.

Sometimes we have an empathy deficit--an empathy deficit.

I ask that you commit to me today that you will look into this and get back to me on whether you think that statement is acceptable behavior.

Big fines make headlines, but that is all they do. Press releases do not save lives.

Let's cut to the chase. I have with me three witnesses. Two, very clearly, are not part of transparency in government.

We pay a huge premium for CIOs, Senior Executive Service. We, the Congress, have authorized special high pay, a quarter of a million dollars and more, to get certain people with special expertise.

I would hope that the unredacted versions of all this would be made available to the GAO.

So somebody who didn't change the password created a huge vulnerability, particularly if they had a high level of access.

They basically got a free ride; 700,000 people got a free ride.

The system as it is today is an incredibly easily gamed system.

There is no one in Congress that I have more personal respect for than Bobby Scott.

But right now New York and perhaps others owe the American people money from excess payments, and they're not being treated the way private sector is being treated.

Boy, I'll tell you, hearings like this let us know how long it takes to do anything here on Capitol Hill.

We are here today because you represent the most arcane part of government in many ways.

So just to wrap up, budget is always a problem, but you are not even beginning to be positioned to handle well the absorption, the cataloging, the referencing and the searching of the media being produced in the United States, let alone…