Henry Waxman: “Do you approve the budgets of the Navigators?”

It is not for the President to say or to obstruct congressional deliberations and investigations or other legitimate functions.

I hope this committee will initiate a detailed investigation examining this network of front groups and trade associations, determine who funds them and expose how they coordinate with industry.

Today's hearing is about the Children's Health Insurance Program. This is a rare program in Washington that has enjoyed bipartisan support since its inception in 1997.

Thank you very much, Congressman Pallone, for recognizing me and for acknowledging the fact that I am the ranking member at the present time, but, of course, you will now take on that job very ably, I am sure, and both of us will follow in…