There is a clear slow-down in health care spending, but we need to do more and to do it faster to change the way Medicare and Medicaid pay f...
In 2009, we did not like the future we saw for a health care system based on a fee-for-service payment model.
So, with the Affordable Care Act, we created new and better ways to deliver health care, save taxpayers dollars, and improve patient care.
the evidence is not strong enough for us to conclude that there was any meaningful effect, i.e., that the effect was different from zero.
I think those are critical steps that will help us, frankly, keep the American people safer.
I could not disagree more strongly that the Department of Justice is not aggressively enforcing existing firearms laws.
Reasonable limitations on these weapons are supported by a majority of Americans, and now more than ever.
the Department of Justice's record of actually enforcing current gun laws, you will forgive my saying, is abysmal.
So if we ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, will we save lives? That is the real question.
Senator, with respect to the first question as to whether or not we would prosecute people involved with medical marijuana for possessing fi...
We have limited resources. I know everyone in this room understands that the Federal Government, just like State and local authorities, has ...
If it is such an important issue, why are we not prosecuting people who fail a background check?
I am certain that we will continue to work with the Committee and with Senator Feinstein in the course of this.
I think it is certainly dangerous, and I think that the point of today's hearing ... is that an AR-15 is a very dangerous weapon.
I want to thank you, Senator Feinstein, for your tireless efforts over the years to enact legislation to address the plague of gun violence ...
the Department strongly supports the goals of Senator Feinstein's bill to enact an assault weapons ban as well as a ban on high-capacity mag...
Our best estimate is that the ban contributed to a 6.7-percent decrease in total gun murders between 1994 and 1995 beyond what would have be...
We see a number of States, like Connecticut, for example, that have much more restrictive gun laws where some of these tragedies have occurr...
