Evan Bayh

First, it increases spending about four times the rate of inflation at a time when the deficit is out of control and our national debt is skyrocketing. So I just I think fiscally, it is irresponsible.

The last thing that we want is the political branches of Government getting, you know, more involved in setting these policies on a day-to-day basis

I'm most gratified for your collaboration.

The President was wise to ask you to remain, and you were a true public servant.

I can't help but think that if we had had the kind of nuanced and complex analysis at that point, perhaps we wouldn't be here today.

These fees would largely be passed through to consumers in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.

I respectfully suggest that we do not just need bipartisan solutions, we need nonpartisan solutions.

This is not a future that we want for our country.

This violates something fundamental in the American character.

I believe that it is strongly desirable to also have credible non-government experts as part of the commission.

We must put a credible process in place that would accomplish two key goals.

If they are simply, in spite of their best intentions, incapable of producing something that is in the national interest, then their parochial concerns must give way to doing what is in the best interest of this country.