Simply put, there are too many shortcomings in the President's budget to adequately address in my opening statement.

The proposed budget never balances. Deficits continue, which means that the debt as a share of the economy would remain at levels not seen in our Nation's history.

We often think of the states as laboratories, and I assume if we develop a national standard that we will look at states to see what standards are there, what makes sense.

implementing pre-breach security measures should be central to any legislation.

The importance of this issue was brought home, as Senator Moran said, just this morning when we read about the Anthem breach, which is absolutely breathtaking in its scope and scale.

You seem to be in the minority, at least in this panel, on the issue of preemption.

We are delighted you all were here. We appreciate the information that was conveyed to us.

As I indicated, this is the first subcommittee hearing I have chaired in 8 years in Congress, and I was nervous, apparently nervous enough not to turn on the microphone.

Thank you, Senator Blunt. To be bipartisan in my admonition, Senator Daines also exceeded his time allotment.

a balanced and thoughtful national standard for data breach notification built on three principles.

Thank you very much, and thank all of our witnesses.

I do not want rationing. I am very worried about the Independent Payment Advisory Board, the CMS Innovation Center, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, all well-intended.

I am on the floor today to speak about an issue that I spoke about just a few days ago, the Choice Act. Let me take my colleagues back in history just a few months, just to last year. I don't imagine any of us don't remember the scandal…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Gardner). Without objection, it is so ordered.

Thank you very much.

It seems to me they do not trust the hospital administrator or the doctors, or the whole delivery system.

I would point out that while it may be an IT company that you are subcontracting or contracting with, a business contracts with lots of other businesses unrelated in a sense to IT, and there is an opportunity for the attack to occur there.

How can you explain how you went from hoping it never had to be used to now doubling down on IPAB?