shifting the terms of competition is really going to be key to beginning to arrest some of these unsustainable increases both in terms of tuition and in terms of student loan debt.

And if this committee is going to undertake how Medicaid money is used and not used by every healthcare provider in every State and every local government in the United States, it might be a very interesting hearing about how we can assure…

I have personal experience and know many of my constituents in their 20s and 30s and 40s who without the comprehensive healthcare services would have died from cervical cancer.

I can tell you something you already know, that without Planned Parenthood we could not meet those access points.

We would like to see more transparency in being able to telegraph our deterrent, because we all know that--looking back into the Cold War, that our deterrent was very important.

the notion that we would continue to discriminate against those populations by not providing adequate Federal funding and access makes no sense if what we're trying to do is to maintain my choice about my high-quality confidential provider.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Do you think, Mr. Secretary, that that would be helpful in pushing out as much information as we can?

Rapid communication, if there is an urgency like this, that did not occur, and we need to correct that.

I want to associate myself with the comments and questions that Cynthia Lummis, our colleague from Wyoming, shared.

We have a problem here that has to be corrected.

I think that a truly independent investigation should occur, so that the great questions that will bring about institutional improvements can be asked.

the RRIF Program is very much open for business.

I want everybody made whole. And I am not feeling as confident about that, particularly.

I personally appreciate EPA's attitude about taking full responsibility.

What this states is the timeline associated with the communications that went to all the communities.

It is time to update this outdated relic.

if we do not push for that issue, that there may not be those kinds of investments.