Rising health care costs are hurting America's global competitiveness and are a drag on family wages.

We should look, I believe, to emulate those examples.

Left unchecked, these costs threaten our country, our economy, and every American family.

By negotiating prices, Senior Care in Wisconsin did save my constituents $80 million in 2010.

Senator Kohl was actually instrumental in addressing the challenges with handling copays for patients enrolled in the CATT trial.

We need to do more, and we need to look at every option as we seek to provide quality care for all Americans at a cost that we can afford.

I introduced a bipartisan bill called the Critical Care Assessment and Improvement Act with my colleague from Minnesota Erik Paulsen.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 2560, the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, which is common-sense legislation that will bring our fiscal house back in order, and will finally get our government off its spending binge. We can no…

I appreciate the gentleman yielding, and I agree with most everything that you have said here, and very well said. The one point I disagree with is the President has no other plan, no doubt. With the PPACA bill, the health care reform…

Mr. Speaker, we've had a great debate here on Cut, Cap, and Balance. All the points have been made. But as I sit here and listen to this debate, Mr. Speaker, I can't help but notice the hypocrisy. We're dealing with the other side, who is…

I appreciate the gentleman from Arkansas yielding. I think you make very powerful arguments as to why our friends on the other side of the aisle were unwilling to get rid of these horrible tax loopholes, because when the two of us got to…

I would agree with the gentleman. And I think it's interesting, as a guy who's come here from central and northern Wisconsin, Wisconsin's Seventh Congressional District, I see that this is a House that will continually talk about political…

Thank you. I appreciate the gentleman for yielding. When I talk to my job creators back in Wisconsin, never do they say, We're leaving because of the quality of workers we have in this area. Actually, they say we have the hardest working…

That's right. And there is but only one plan that saves Medicare, and that is ours. And I should have explained that better. I would agree with you. But just to reiterate, it's not just us and the President saying that Medicare is going…

Well said to the gentleman from Arkansas. You know, jobs have been a key component of the debates here in this House because there is a 9.2 percent unemployment rate, and the effective rate is far higher--those who have stopped looking for…

One point, we don't want to do a cabernet dance here. There is no doubt that the proposal that came out the House and passed, it is now going to go to the President. Most Americans know when you buy a house or a car, you make an offer…

Wisconsin has been a model for creating and using treatment courts to strike the right balance between holding nonviolent offenders accountable for their crime, but also helping them to break the cycle in and out of the justice system.

I thank the Senator. First of all, I thank the Senator for his leadership on this issue. I share your concern about the dysfunction of not only this body, our Budget Committee, but Washington in general. I mean, Washington is broken. We…