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the purpose of the Prove It Act is to strengthen the voice of small business owners and provide incentives to agencies to improve the quality of their certifications and analysis when they are actually writing a rule.
So I want to thank them as well for being here to support you today, and I know that many members of this Committee love to work on things together, especially when it comes to regulatory reform, tax reform, and others.
If what we are seeing now is the new normal for every time control of the White House changes hands, the Senate, quite frankly, will be a much lesser institution.
I am worried about what my colleagues on the minority side are doing to the Senate as an institution.
I have been in the Senate for 40 years, and I think my record for being willing to reach across the aisle is beyond any reasonable dispute.
The EB-5 Regional Center Program has been plagued by fraud and abuse.
Without accurate and complete financial information, the leadership does not know how the money is being spent and what things cost.
What I am saying is that the same rules, processes, courtesies, and assumptions of good faith that have long been the hallmark of the Senate confirmation process should continue to apply regardless of who is President.
I have been in the Senate for 40 years and I think my record for being willing to reach across the aisle is beyond any reasonable dispute.
To the best of my knowledge, I have followed the appropriate university regulations concerning financial disclosures.
I think it is a wonderful thing, and I just personally want to congratulate you and your wife and family for giving so much to this country.
I have sponsored legislation called the Physician Payment Sunshine Act.
After questioning about 20 doctors and research institutions, it looks like problems with transparency are everywhere.
It is good to ask tough questions, and we have had a lot of tough questions here today, but you have answered them very, very well.
I hope that I could get your commitment that you will enforce this act the way it was intended to be enforced.
It is difficult to imagine anyone more capable of serving this Nation as the Secretary of HHS than Congressman Tom Price.