It is of utmost importance that national health reform legislation makes a real difference in the lives of American women, across their lifespan.

I believe that women's health is fundamental to our country's health because women are the small business owners and entrepreneurs, they are the educators, doctors, and CEOs.

health insurance companies discriminate against women solely on the basis of their gender.

It is also unbelievable to me that, in this day and age, we allow insurance companies to charge women more for health insurance simply because of the fact that they may become pregnant.

This is simply immoral and unacceptable.

If you have got that kind of market share.

The average individual Maine health insurance consumer is paying four times as much today for health care as they did 10 years ago.

I personally hear this a lot about, oh, well, you should be able to buy insurance products from--you know, we should deregulate it so you could buy insurance products from all over the place.

I am deeply concerned that without additional checks and balances, this expansion will be a windfall for insurance companies.

I am not aware of any industry that is entitled to any guaranteed margin of profit. Are you?

In numerous States, nearly 90 percent of the health insurance markets are dominated by a single carrier.

I am a cosponsor of this bill, and I believe that Senator Leahy's legislation in health care companies' exemption from antitrust laws is a crucial first step to anticompetitive behavior.

And I just do not want to lower our standards, and any insurance company that operates--that wants to operate in Minnesota can just simply meet our standards.

This is the result of your binding, mandatory arbitration, Mr. de Bernardo.

the ultimate role of a judge is to follow the law, not make the law

Alexander Hamilton I think was the one who said that--when he was talking about separation of powers, he said the legislature has the money, the executive power has the force, and the judiciary has neither.

I was interested to see that you were tribal counsel to the Narragansett Indian tribe.

I think what they're doing is critically important. When Justice Sotomayor was in her hearings, I raised this issue as a constitutional issue of making sure that the--that information flows freely on the Internet.