The SGR system--as we all know--is fundamentally flawed and must be repealed.

Our seniors deserve better than to have government inaction threaten the availability of their care.

I would like to encourage all members of the House Small Business Committee to become cosponsors of H.R. 763, introduced by Reps. Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah), to repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers…

Maybe we can have a monument on the mall.

Thank you for holding this very important hearing.

This premium tax applies to fully-insured plans. It does not apply to self-insured, which are more large corporations.

I am proud to be amongst them. Thank you for your leadership, Mr. Matheson.

I intend on every hearing we have to keep asking those questions until I actually do get a response from Interior.

Our public lands are open for recreational sporting activities by the citizens.

I don't think we need to back away from being able to talk about the threats that we face.

Do you think, though, that this kind of a guidance would diminish or water-down a true wilderness characteristic?

I have talked for the last 3 years about the disappearing language of terror.

I appreciate Dr. Benishek's work in drafting and introducing it and I hope this hearing will lead to its prompt enactment.

Damn elevators.

If naturalness is removed from the equation, are there areas of public land that would not qualify for wilderness?

The Hunting and Fishing Heritage and Opportunities Act gives this tradition a statutory guaranty.

It is time we finally closed these loopholes, firm up the language, and make sure that future generations will always be able to enjoy the outdoors hunting, fishing, shooting, just taking a walk in the woods.

I find it very disconcerting to have had the testimony earlier on the Antiquities Act, that NEPA should never be used by a President.