President Trump and the Republican leadership are on television every day telling the American people how this tax bill is going to help the middle class, how it was written for the middle class. Unfortunately, I will not shock too many…

this is what I asked: I am very concerned that if you succeed in passing tax legislation that significantly adds to our national debt, you will then move aggressively to balance the budget on the backs of working families, the elderly, the…

In my small State of Vermont, we have lost 112 people last year as a result of opioid overdoses.

One of the reasons we have such confidence in our medical system is because of our board system.

I will respectfully disagree with Mr. Williamson.

If people lose confidence in your hospital, they will quit coming there.

We make laws because people are not doing their job, and their unnecessary.

Well, my commitment to ensuring VA providers adhere to professional standards compelled me to introduce H.R. 4059.

I think this implementation of the Cerner system is going to be a little harder than it thought.

I would make sure that every 150 plus those medical centers that checked that box and said we know how to do this, and are doing this.

But at the end of the day, we still have, as medical staff people, the patient's safety and quality of care is upmost.

That needs to change.

Quality of care has been an issue for years, long before there was a computer chip.

I would think that just should be policy; we shouldn't need a law to do that.

I don't know why Mr. Williamson was ever needed to go out.

We are going to have a tough time in Congress on money.

I think all of us should leave this hearing with some significant amount of humility.

But, actually, I loved your testimony, but you are not reassuring me, because I am asking the 'how' question.