I think we will be working a lot together because I do not just serve on this Committee but, like Senator Lautenberg, also serve on the Environmental Committee where we are doing the transportation bill in the coming year.

I am working on some legislation--and I hope others will join me--with the upcoming reauthorization of the transportation bill.

I am in favor of better regulation of behavior, as Dr. Hoenig laid out, but I am afraid that we have seen time and again, all our regulators, particularly around big finance, get captured.

I just think it is unfair if we think that kids in certain urban districts are going to have the same kind of food that their parents are going to send to school with them.

I want to save money here and I see this as saving money in health care costs and saving money in how we buy, purchase food.

If it was working, I would say, fine, Mr. Felton, but it doesn't seem to be working for these kids.

But the way we have been doing it hasn't been working. These kids are getting fatter and fatter.

I just do not think this is the way we want to go. I do not think you do either in terms of having individual patients trying to negotiate rates.

Miami, Florida, $15,000 for the same package of Medicare services that is $7,000 in the Twin Cities.

$50 billion--$50 billion--every 4 years that we can save.

Yet, they have the highest quality and lowest cost of health care around.

we cannot neglect this issue of making sure, as we look at reform, that these are offered in the most efficient way.

we have to make it as efficient as possible.

this team--the medical team idea... is where you often find the lower rates.

this is a safety-net program for our elderly, and we really must make sure that it's fiscally responsible and sustainable.

The national parks have always been a part of my family's history.

despite all the big challenges going on, is working tirelessly to fill as many seats in government as there are in a hockey arena.

Well, compared to Delaware, a woman can always do the work of two men.