I see these extravagant promises in just about everything that happens here--and I am new to this, too, myself--and then I see this terrible execution.

I didn't vote for that because as a former mayor and a Governor, I couldn't figure out how there was any possibility that that would be a job creator.

Unfortunately, I wish they had been right and I had been wrong.

If you want to regulate them more or you want to regulate them less.

I look forward to not only supporting your nomination, each of you, but I also look forward to working with both of you.

You've got 50 states that regulate in this area. You've got a Federal Government that regulates in this area.

It's amazing how quickly you become the Ranking Member here.

My understanding is that about 10 million aren't here as American citizens. Is that something we should do in health care reform?

If it is not being overcome then you do have a serious problem. You have got a serious management issue.

Our policyholders, given the opportunity to be aware of the features of the very policy that they think they are buying.

Well, the reality here in this country too, as you know, if you end up at an emergency ward, they treat you.

Every thoughtful analysis of Medicare tells us that pretty quickly here, 7, 8 years out, it's insolvent.

What we need, I think, is some really good concrete ideas on how to make that better.

If that's what this is about today that you're saying to us, Mike, if you could just make this as readable as what you got when you signed up for your Blue Cross policy here with the Federal Government, as did every other Federal employee…

The label doesn't really matter to me; it's something else.

I think you make a compelling point.

People have to know what they're buying. And what they're going to get. And what they're not going to get.

We also have, I think, a healthy suspicion about those who claim that government will solve all problems.

This would warrant a hearing. This would warrant us looking into this and digging deep to see what's going on.

I will tell you as a Member of the Committee I was very concerned about the report that was released by the VA Inspector General last week entitled, 'Use and Reprocessing of the Flexible Fiberoptic Endoscopes at VA Medical Facilities.'

I would hate to get at the end of this and find out that we've only made it more complicated, not less complicated.

This practice appears to have forced consumers to pay more.

I appreciate your work.

There is a national debate going on now about health care reform.

I think the report is very thorough. We can read that. We can understand, man, something really went wrong here.