I am proud of the health care system we have in Minnesota and we will continue to make it better for the people we serve and for the taxpayers we are responsible for.

Starting January 11th, Democratic Governor Mark Dayton's administration took bold action to increase transparency and accountability for taxpayers.

If this Committee is serious about investigating Medicare fraud, for-profit and nonprofit health plans must be required to open their books.

I am glad Ms. Bachmann has seen this as a way forward for the Federal Government to move on.

So here, we have homeowners who saw the Government respond vigorously and generously on helping major financial institutions, and little tweaks in the law could save a family $8,000.

I am going to continue with a different question because I will be running out of time...

I, quite frankly, was shocked by the numbers that you presented, that the monopoly strategy in HARP 2 results in the difference between--I think it was between $15,000 and $4,000 in refinancing.

If this body will not take action, we are going to put ag out of business.

If ICE swoops in, farmers cannot plant, they cannot harvest, they cannot can.

I think we have to remember the 9/11 hijackers came in on student visas, went to schools that taught them how to fly but not to land.

I have tried for 10 years to get an ag jobs bill through, and I cannot get it through.

I hope, and I still hope, at least while I am still in the Senate, that we will have comprehensive immigration policy.

We believe that it is fragile and reversible. The future in Burma is neither clear nor certain and therefore we need to carefully calibrate our approach to encourage continued progress.

I would disagree slightly with my friend, Congressman Rohrabacher. I think it does have to do with what the international community has done.

I believe what we have laid out is a very careful, calibrated, step by step approach that rewards action for action.

It seems like those are the three major buckets.

It has not passed through, but at some point this will move along far enough that perhaps further intervention will do harm.

I guess I might take one exception with that.