04/21/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"Under our constitutional system of government, HHS must receive an appropriation from Congress before it can make payments to insurance companies that lose money under this law."
"Without an explicit appropriation, any money spent on this program would be an illegal transfer of funds."
"This is an important issue."
"I know these are important issues to you and you have spent a lot of time and effort in mastering these issues."