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Elijah Cummings
@elijahcummings· Democratic · MD· Aug 1, 2013

The gentleman just said that we hadn't received documents with regard to William Wilkins. We have received, I know we haven't received all of them, but I have got them right here.

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Elijah Cummings
@elijahcummings· Democratic · MD· Aug 1, 2013

I'm not concerned with your compliance, Mr. Werfel, because I have seen it.

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John Sarbanes
@johnsarbanes· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

The question I wanted to ask you is, I guess there are three categories of States in terms of how they have responded to the challenge of the exchanges.

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Elijah Cummings
@elijahcummings· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

when, say, that female is deprived of an opportunity she should have gotten, then she can't do for her children and, to me, that is criminal.

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Elijah Cummings
@elijahcummings· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

justice delayed is justice denied, and if we can find remedies quickly and get people back and give them a chance that they should have had, we need to do that as fast as possible.

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John Sarbanes
@johnsarbanes· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

The stuff that the Affordable Care Act contain that has already taken effect actually are working pretty well, like keeping young people on their parents' insurance coverage until age 26.

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John Sarbanes
@johnsarbanes· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

You look at the reduction in out-of-pocket expenses because we have eliminated some copayments for our seniors for certain kinds of preventive screenings and other things.

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John Sarbanes
@johnsarbanes· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2013

I think our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are in a difficult place right now because they know that if this works it is going to do really great things for their constituents.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

But in Parliamentary systems where they can engage all these programs at once, they look at these problems and they say, 'Collectively, we are spending a great deal of money. We need to fix the way we collectively spend the money.'

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

the Republican budget turns it into a block ramp, and cuts it to a level where it is one-third below the Congressional Budget projected levels.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we would increase our spending on defense, and we would make up for that increase by dramatically cutting programs in…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

It is a budget that showers large new tax breaks on the wealthiest in this country while hurting the middle class.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

That budget, the Republican budget, cuts $810 billion from the base funding from Medicaid, $810 billion.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2013

It simply adds insult to injury to pretend that deep cuts to food and nutrition programs... will somehow, quote, 'strengthen,' unquote, that safety net.

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