First, Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent.
I hope this hearing today is not an attempt to do that.
But I have, in my experience, every time the government gets involved in it they seem to make it a lot worse.
But what we continue to see from the President and his type of leadership is that he is literally blindly leading his id...
He says, 'I have job packages, I have job packages,' but yet his war on coal is going to punish exactly those people tha...
We do a pretty good job regulating ourselves. And we haven't had one incident or anybody in the country that we can show...
Ma'am, when we say 'all-of-the-above energy,' we are attacking coal, so I don't buy that.
But with all due respect, this President hasn't employed anybody. And so I don't know if he understands the ripple effec...
I find it hypocritical that they are going to punish the coal industry because of an ideological idea that he has.
the idea that you have been in the private sector, you understand about leadership, and you understand how important lea...
Is there a mechanism in place--was there a plan to have a mechanism in place for 2014 for employers to be able to verify...
So the first you'd heard about this at all or people at CMS had heard about this at all was June 24th or 25th?
There's a tremendous amount of credit information out there that's in error, obviously.
Right. I'm talking about just the background of how do we show that this person, once they've accessed data, that data t...
And that was the plan from the beginning?
So, regardless, employers weren't going to report either way?
Is that mechanism in place now?
You have a tough job in a lot of ways, you know that full well, because we need significant reform.
