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Changing that oversight process is a very important thing to do.

We are all getting--we are living longer.

I happen to believe that it could be prevented, that a project that had that as an objective could, over a relatively short period of time, prevent the onset of the disease itself.

It is not just I have lost one activity of daily living. I have to be supervised.

I hope that this hearing will produce results.

I don't think you can do this without electronic health medical records.

Unless it has not just authority, but funding, it is going to be exceptionally difficult to get the job done.

There is a case here to change the way we approach Alzheimer's disease, and it is a fairly simple case that it is a different kind of disease.

We didn't fund that to go half way. We funded it as a project to go all the way to the Moon.

If you believe it is project based, I am quite enthusiastic that the recommendations that we are making in this report will produce real results.

So what we also need to look at here is the $650 million, an appropriate amount for the 1.5 million. Are we, if we delay this another 4 months, even going to be able to find that 1.5 million? And I told a story the other day when we were…

There was a poll that was brought out last week that said that 95 percent of the homes are ready. So if 95 percent are ready today, what is the number then that we have to be at to implement the hard date? Would it be 100 percent, 99.5…

Mr. Salemme owns a business called Clearwire that actually will benefit from a delay because it puts his company into an advantageous position. Maybe that is why we are now talking about a delay of 4 months without any hearing. I would…

I am proud today to rise for the 11 million children who will have health coverage when we pass H.R. 2 for the first time and it's finally signed into law by the incoming President. CHIPRA will make a significant down payment on…

I really thank you for the opportunity to dialogue on this question and to focus, yes, on the urgency of the moment, while also creatively thinking about where we go. I mean, this is America. This is the land of innovation. We can get that…

As our primary defense against injury and death from poisoning, poison control centers are a vital part of our health care system in the United States. Few people realize poisoning is the second most common form of unintentional death in…

Free our resources. Our families have to pay $4, almost $4 a gallon to fill up. They are spending $70 just to fill up mid-size cars. We can't take this anymore, but yet we have the resources right here within the United States, whether…

I drive a diesel vehicle, and even though diesel is more efficient on a gallon-for-gallon basis, it is painful. I close with that.