I found your presentations to be as comprehensive a presentation that I have ever received on the treaty, and I thank you for that.

We are running against a cliff that is going to come up very soon as to how we deal with the sequestration.

The challenge is, it is so difficult to put that into code where you are reducing, in your case, reimbursements to hospitals based upon admissions and rewarding long-term care providers based upon results.

I would like to call to order this hearing of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance entitled 'Reviewing the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue'.

we have a potential, still, to blow this relationship, and China, as they try to move toward, I think we all agree, toward this consumption-based approach.

the notion of formal or informal--probably better informal, Dr. Bergsten--of a G2 idea, I think, makes enormous sense.

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After the group of 10 Senators, bipartisan delegation, went to China last year, it gave me a more comprehensive picture of the tilted playing field.