"The odds of high skilled passing without comprehensive, and that is immigration reform, is close to zero, and the odds of comprehensive immigration reform passing without high skilled is close to zero..."
"One of the issues of the earlier process that we used was again tying visas to a specific employer, therefore stymying the growth of our domestic STEM field."
"I mean, it amazes me that we discriminate against U.S. forest products and yet that program, which is a Federal program, promotes foreign products."
"The ultimate end game, in my view, is to encourage, take action to facilitate the emergence of a single, free Korean state."
"It amazes me that we discriminate against U.S. forest products and yet that program promotes foreign products."
"Unfortunately, implementation of these recommendations is going to be all the more difficult because the testimony from the Inspectors General Tighe and Scovel come in the midst of yet another manufac..."
"Moreover, the CR put forth by the Republican leadership this week would further slash funding to areas such as highway safety to below the levels agreed upon just last in MAP-21."
"And I am hoping that we create 15,000 pages of advocacy for immigration reform."
"Just last week, we were in the Supreme Court on the issue of the Voting Rights Act."
"The cuts to the Department of Education and Transportation each measure about $2 billion."
"The implementation of recommendations from our inspectors general can serve to decrease waste and ensure that the Federal Government is spending the taxpayers' money as efficiently as possible."
"I appreciate your steps in that direction, that landscape approach."
"I would just conclude by, if I could, Mr. Chairman, allow them to answer, just conclude and hope that my colleagues will join me in making sure that the language in any legislation that we support has..."
"I am not sure, by why is HHS classifying these expenses as administrative when they are expended specifically to improve the quality of a network that a patient can access?"
"According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in 2011, Medicare spending accounted for 21 percent of total national health expenditures."
"CMS estimates that out of that $555 billion, $44 billion--nearly 8 percent--were improper payments."
"In 2012, Medicare spent approximately $555 billion caring for more than 49 million beneficiaries."
"I look forward to hearing from our GAO witnesses what areas in the Medicare and Medicaid programs are most vulnerable to fraud and their recommendations to combat improper payments."
