I encourage you to get with General Motors, because they cannot figure out how to make money.

It is important that we examine the details of a national renewable portfolio standard.

In fact, the Southeast is one of the regions of the country that will see the most benefit from this proposal.

But you also talked about how patients sometimes get an epidural pain medicine connected to an IV catheter which could then have lethal errors.

We need a mechanism with Federal leadership to do that.

Right, for what now?

Thank you, Madame Chairman. Listening to the testimony today it just re-emphasizes to me the need in this country for health care information technology across the broad spectrum of diseases and hospitals and best patient care from…

Thank you, Madame Chairman.

I appreciated your paper on the results oriented and the scientific approach, especially for the catheter-related blood stream infections.

Nobody knows how much it is. I can probably tell you that we are overpaying for the services.

I will be very brief with my opening statement. It is my belief, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member, that these ruthless acts of piracy must be addressed and resolved because it poses a threat to maritime around the world.

I am just going to voice my objections to that bankruptcy cramdown provision that is moving through Congress because if the ultimate objective of this committee and this Chamber is to see a recovery in the housing industry, we have to do…

I want to thank Senator Mikulski for the tremendous work she is doing in this area.

I think that at least in North Carolina, it is certainly an issue that we have grappled with for quite a while.

We hope is going to be a major effort on health reform.

If you organize a team around the patient needs, then you have these other roles.

I agree, and I think every person here understands that.

The Congress has the ability, as we have shown every year since I have been in the U.S. Senate... if there was a shortfall they stepped in with some type of supplemental funds.