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Should taxpayers pay for it?

Secretary Becerra will HHS investigate the University of Pittsburgh's grotesque violation of the partial-birth abortion ban?

Will you commit as the Secretary of HHS to full oversight of HHS grant programs to ensure no grantees who violated 18 U.S. Code Section 1531 continue to receive HHS funding?

Will you commit as the Secretary of HHS to ensure that the department acts in accordance with the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortions decided in Gonzales v. Carhart?

Do you concede that partial-birth abortion as defined in 18 U.S. Code Section 1531 is illegal, and punishable by fine, imprisonment or both?

I have had the Promising Pathways Act out there, sponsored by many on this Committee, and it is just saying one thing, give some hope to these families that there is more than just what we have been doing for decades.

I request that the Senate HELP Committee provide a full patient representative hearing from the rare and life threatening disease community.

I think the Committee should have allowed it, but when that doesn't happen, you go to plan B.

As a U.S. Senator, I have been proud since I have been here to represent Main Street, to represent the voice that is not heard, to represent the patient and the family that wonders why.

I think it is kind of sad when you have got a hearing and that all kinds of different ways to make your point are generally available, and here, maybe because of the poignancy and the fact that it is coming from the patient who drives this…

The user fee renewal process will not be successful if it ignores the end users of the medicines in the hearing process, or rubberstamps a proposal without patient input.

I have had a lot of interaction with builders back in Indiana and their main concern...

So, in summary then, I think it looks like he thinks the solution, long-term, is to change our economy into one driven by the Federal Government, that is going to be larger than even the European economies that at least balance their…

It seems out of proportion.

How do you think we can do that, be there for all the people that do look to it, when you have got like the Medicare trust fund that completely goes bust here in 4.

I want to cite a couple of statistics. On our revenue side, if you go back 50 years, we average 17 to 18 percent of our GDP.

For as many people, in my short time here, that come to the Federal Government, expect it to have its house in order.

The biggest issue I hear--and I was one of them as an employer because my company had 15 employees for a long, long time before it was large enough to where we can afford the overhead of providing any type of retirement to our employees.