I think that you have all made the case, the nurses, everything that you are doing at the county hospital, that the funding has to be appropriate for it.

There are really underserved people that now are being served so much better because of the new community health center.

No one sends their kids off to college and says, well, I am going to pay for room and board, but I am not paying for your tuition.

I want to thank each one of you for what you do, first of all.

Ms. Castor. You are right. And it is back on the Congress in a lot of ways. And I hope that they are listening and understand the huge cost if we do not address this.

Well, clearly this has really been overlooked, and my sense is that it rests more with the FDA than the Congress.

I think that is just part of the ongoing work of the agency and the Congress.

I want to commend the authors of the legislation for addressing something that evidently has been overlooked for decades.

I thank the gentlewoman from Illinois for yielding and for her leadership and work on the great Energy and Commerce Committee in the House. My congressional district is home to the engineers, innovators, and developers who are pioneering…

This is an important hearing, and it is timely because of the challenges of the hurricanes.

I can't imagine my life without public broadcasting. It is where I receive my news. I trust that.

What stands out to me today is how important Medicaid is, I mean how essential it is.