I want to save money here and I see this as saving money in health care costs and saving money in how we buy, purchase food.

I just think it is unfair if we think that kids in certain urban districts are going to have the same kind of food that their parents are going to send to school with them.

Yet, they have the highest quality and lowest cost of health care around.

$50 billion--$50 billion--every 4 years that we can save.

Miami, Florida, $15,000 for the same package of Medicare services that is $7,000 in the Twin Cities.

Medicare has systematically been underpaying for services.

we cannot neglect this issue of making sure, as we look at reform, that these are offered in the most efficient way.

this is a safety-net program for our elderly, and we really must make sure that it's fiscally responsible and sustainable.

The national parks have always been a part of my family's history.

we have to make it as efficient as possible.

despite all the big challenges going on, is working tirelessly to fill as many seats in government as there are in a hockey arena.

Well, compared to Delaware, a woman can always do the work of two men.

we shouldn't be operating in an evidence-free zone when it comes to the protection of our natural resources.

In Minnesota, we love our fishing.

the biggest variations occur when there is not a clear-cut path for the one right thing to do.

this team--the medical team idea... is where you often find the lower rates.

the 100-year fight over the Boundary Waters has finally ended

a bridge just shouldn't fall down in the middle of America.