One of the Senate's most important responsibilities is to offer service and provide consent to the President's nominations.

The nomination of Kristine Svinicki to continue to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is crucial, especially as the Commission enters a tumultuous time with a lack of transparent leadership while continuing to make important…

I would say to both of you, when a tragedy occurs such as 9/11, it changes the behavior; we do things that we hadn't done before.

I think, rather than extreme, I should have used the word impatient. I am ready for nuclear energy.

I think you covered that pretty well in your opening statement, but I wanted to make it in reference to this reorganization statement.

It was right of him to resign last month. By removing himself as a distraction to the agency, the Commission can once again focus on its mission of nuclear safety.

It is interesting to talk about an open or closed rule when we are discussing something with the Affordable Care Act. We all know what an open process that it was developed under and how wide open and inclusive that that was. Let's talk…

Thank you. Let me do a quick follow up statement, finish out talking about the RAC audits.

The way it is set up.

As a Federal Government, we are designed to serve the people, rather than them serve us.

I would encourage you to keep it as a matter of a great deal of internal discussion so we can try to evaluate it...

Yeah. They are really going in looking for overpayments, obviously, on that.

Still paying people a contingency based on what they find?

the goal of this is that it is right the first time, not that we are paying chasing

I also think that what comes through is that CMS, in conjunction with the Inspector General's Office and GAO, is working forward in a way that is learning from the mistakes of the past.

This is someone we should be serving. We should hold people to account, but we should also be serving them...

The appeal rate seems to be extremely high when we are looking for fraud, and we are fighting back and forth...

Increased government borrowing generally draws money away from or crowds out private investment and productive capital, leading to a smaller stock of capital and lower output in the long run that would otherwise be the case.