We want to put a moratorium on that rule because there are consequences for that rule as it goes forward with it.

So I am hoping that we can keep this focus, and I know I've talked to the chairman about this.

So while we can continue to debate this rural or 340B program, but all the while people aren't getting health care because of the $1.6 billion in cuts.

I think it's been enlightening to listen to some of the debate--some points--and it's where I wanted to make my remarks.

So I guess the question, Mr. Chairman, comes back is, has the mission of this program 25 years ago to 'reach more patients to provide comprehensive services,' has it been accomplished?

Can our health care system afford nearly 30 percent reduction in health care funding and still survive? I think the answer is of course it can't, and we have not achieved the mission.

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What we started doing as a society is picking a group, the group de jour, and you know, their rights trump everybody else's.

I just want to applaud your continued efforts there to bring fairness to the cities around this country.

That is not how America was designed, and I think we have a real duty to make sure that we don't go down that pathway.

I am just going to remind you of a couple things that were brought up at the time.

there are others. I know they're doing some--the ethane storage hub that we've been promoting here

continuing to overregulate fossil fuel in America will have virtually no effect on the global environment.

shouldn't we be first--innovate first, do the research, then regulate?

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