if we hurt those industries, we hurt those workers. Those good jobs and good benefits are now lost and they are shipped overseas.

It seems as if we are sending out something which the folks who are employed in that field have good jobs with good benefits.

Medicare generally pays more for a service in a hospital than in an ambulatory surgical center.

I appreciate you saying you are out to get good value for what we spend in Medicare.

Our health care delivery system needs to focus on the right procedures to the right patient at the right time and place.

Now, I have here that we have been in the 8-hour ozone standard for over 3 years, and this has been communicated to region 6, that apparently two of the five criteria to be designated attainment area have been fulfilled, but that we can't…

It is sort of like Waiting for Godot, it never happens.

It is abundantly clear now that radicalization is a problem, that all of our youth are targeted.

Fifty percent go back. That is 7,500 crimes we know that will be committed.

I think radicalization and what we are doing in our prison system should be a concern.

I just hope that we are not being desensitized to the victims of murder in the United States as opposed to who they are.

So for at least domestic or United States, we don't have a standard--we don't have a rule.

Do you think that is something we need to address in terms of making sure that those cockpits are secured?

The other thing I would just like to add, especially as States start to deal with major budget problems, especially Louisiana, and we deal with our own budget problems up here, the grants for emergency preparedness, for event planning…

We are having an issue in Louisiana that I think rises, in my opinion, to a Homeland Security issue, especially when you talk disaster response.

the health care reform law places significant restrictions on physician ownership of hospitals.

So you are expanding government based on this health care bill.

I am all for creating jobs, but how many Federal bureaucrats do we need to get the job done?