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I am disappointed that I haven't received an answer to that letter which was sent more than a month ago.

Furthermore, 200 Alzheimer's researchers have also written to CMS, and said there is no question, but that this drug should be allowed for patients who are receiving Medicare.

I just do not understand CMS's misguided and outright unprecedented decision to not cover a whole class of Alzheimer's drugs.

It is not CMS's job to second guess the drug approvals of the FDA.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. Therefore, we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must act anew and think anew, and then we shall save our…

Why does it take so long before you get to the posting? Why does it take 120 days?

That is a long time.

If you are curious about status on this Committee, those of us who have our own desk, that is a special status.

I want to express directly, too, my deep concern and disappointment about that agreement.

Well, this does not strike me as a good deal for the taxpayers or for the consumers that you are charged with protecting.

You need people to be at work. You need people to be in the office.

Now, some of our colleagues, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, has recommended that we raise up to $2 million or even up to $10 million.

Well, I want to switch to relate it by different topics. But to me, it creates a situation where you are rewarding very wealthy depositors...

There is no safer place in the U.S. banking system to put your deposits.

The full faith and credit of the United States, that is to pay our bills on time like every families expected to, is not something that should ever be held hostage to score cheap political points at the expense of working people in this…

I do expect from you a detailed plan about how the IRS is intending to use IRA money.

Not getting that done would be catastrophic for our economy, so I hope we can do this in a straightforward, bipartisan way, as we have many times under both Republican and Democratic leadership.

Families, of course, are also counting on us to raise the debt limit, you just talked about this, without drama, without delay.