Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to this free trade agreement with Panama and to the two others that we are considering this week with South Korea and Colombia. Trade agreements should be in the best interests of our Nation and…

If we keep putting off dealing with Medicare's $38 trillion in unfunded liabilities, there will be severe consequences for the country.

I have joined 42 senators, 21 Republicans and 20 Democrats and 1 Independent, in asking the Select Committee to go big.

When they first started this program back in 1965, they projected out 25 years and said that by 1990 Medicare would cost $12 billion. In fact, it ended up costing $109 billion, basically nine times the original estimate.

I have come to develop a high regard and respect for him as not only a smart senator but as a senator who very much likes and wants to do things in a bipartisan way.

Certainly, as I traveled around the State of Wisconsin, when I ask younger people what do you expect to get out of Social Security and Medicare, younger people-- unfortunately for me, that's people probably 50 and under-- without…

But the second point is to me that shows that there's a pretty receptive audience for structural reform because when you have no expectations of getting a benefit, you probably welcome the fact that if we reform these programs, make them…

Until we reconnect that, until we re-induce the free market system which, by the way, guarantees, what, the lowest possible price and cost, the highest possible level of quality, the highest possible level of customer service, we're just…

The numbers we came up with, rather than an annual cost for Obamacare of $93 billion, it's closer to almost a trillion dollars a year.

The free market itself would force the information.

Currently, about the only reason that we're able to reduce cost to providers is because we have a huge amount of cost sharing.

I appreciate the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding. I come from central and northern Wisconsin where we have a large forest products industry. We make a lot of paper in Wisconsin. And if you look at these rules, they are going to have a…

It is same problem Sandra O'Connor is always talking about.

I appreciate the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding. Just quickly, we have heard a lot about the President's jobs bill, and I think everyone in this House agrees that this country needs more economic growth and it needs more jobs. I'm…

Thank you. I think we all come to this House in an effort to grow the economy and make sure we create policies that are going to help create jobs. We don't care if it's a Republican or a Democrat idea. We just want ideas that are going to…

Well, I support that, even though I got a lot of grief for moving Senator Leahy's National Security Letters into the PATRIOT Act.

These provisions enhance existing and establish new geriatrics programs in an effort to build the capacity of the healthcare workforce needed to care for older adults.

Should we be troubled by any one company, however well-intended like yours, having huge, huge influence over news and information citizens find on the internet?