Bart Stupak: “I will give the gentleman examples. I think excessive is more than reasonable. When it is more than reasonable pricing.”

I think the evasiveness of your answers only serve to increase the frustration, not decrease the frustration, not just of Members of Congress, but of that of the American people.

It was because of safety, yes. And safety concerns continue yet today.

Yes, it did. We were shocked that he would even bring it up in the first meeting, and then in the second meeting we had with them.

The Stupak amendment was approved with the support of 64 Democrats, including House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey.