I would like to know when I might be able to expect a response but, more importantly, whether you agree with Secretary Sebelius that the Affordable Care Act plans should be exempt from the anti-kickback laws.

I ask unanimous consent that the letters I will be speaking about be printed in the Record at the end of my remarks. Recently the Obama administration has been talking a lot about income inequality and poverty. Yesterday I spoke about the…

It would seem to me it is pretty easy to see how that one individual is going to be run over if we do not see that they get their constitutional rights protected.

We are going to have a bigger problem with the Government abuse of privacy with drones now.

It does not seem to me like you would want to exempt anything from anti-kickback laws.

I think this is unacceptable. The Department should show sufficient respect for this Committee to answer its questions.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Income Inequality

It is unfortunate that we always have to start a Department oversight hearing with this same request to respond to unanswered questions from Congress.

We are just trying to determine whether or not he has exceeded that authority.

But I am not questioning whether or not he can do it. I might have some question about the legality and constitutionality of it.

Maybe we have got more agreement than what you and I might realize at a particular time.

I mentioned my concern that the President has been using Executive orders to circumvent the will of Congress and the American people.

Mr. President, tomorrow night we have the State of the Union Address, and news reports say that one of the issues the President will be speaking about is income inequality. That brings me to something I should have spoken on a couple of…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, January 29, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to markup the…

I call on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the matter to ensure that these price spikes were not a result of anti-competitive behavior or illegal manipulation.

Mr. President, I would like to continue the discussion about the description of the Senate as a deliberative body and continue to echo the call for the distinguished minority leader for a return to a functional Senate. I have spoken on…

Madam President, I come to the floor to speak in favor of the Omnibus appropriations bill we now have before us. First and foremost, it is noteworthy that this is a bill, not a continuing resolution. For the first time in years, Congress…

Mr. President, on January 11, 1964, 50 years ago this week, Dr. Luther Terry released the landmark Surgeon General's report-- the first of its kind--on smoking and health. The report established conclusive links between smoking and lung…