I would like to commend the Subcommittee, Chairman Bishop, and Congressman Johnson, for your work in crafting reform language that has been included in H.R. 4760, Securing America's Future Act.

What we need to do is make sure that we give flexibility for access. Access has to be critical.

That is where the east-west access becomes critical.

the Committee's legislation will finally take the handcuffs off the agents and allow us to simply do our jobs.

I would like to close by urging Congress to consider and pass legislation that would solve these very real problems.

thank you for raising this crucial issue and bringing attention to an important proposal in the President's budget to lower drug costs for American seniors.

millions of women would lose the right to see the doctor they trust, the doctor of their choosing.

One-point-four trillion dollars cut from Medicaid, millions of Americans locked out of the program.

the administration is giving a green light to junk insurance policies that revive the worst insurance abuses of the past.

What the Trump budget offers is chaos in the private insurance market and the elimination of key consumer protections.

the Trump agenda of health-care discrimination is back.

I want to once again commend my colleagues on both sides who joined in this effort and who share in this success.

Last month, as a result of countless hours of work by this committee, Congress passed and the President signed a 6-year CHIP extension.

Again, I want to thank everyone on this committee who worked on this bill, most notably our ranking member, Senator Wyden.

Senator Ted Kennedy and I created the CHIP program more than 2 decades ago.

Before I begin, I want to express on behalf of the committee the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.

the CHRONIC Care Act, another bipartisan legislative product out of this committee, was also signed into law recently.

Before I begin, I want to express, on behalf of the committee, the sadness we all feel in light of yesterday's events in Florida.