"Hon. Henry A. Waxman, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, opening statement."
"I hope we can get it across the finish line and let us get this job done."
"I am generally supportive of these public health programs, but I do want to note my reservations about extending the Abstinence Only program."
"We all agree that Medicaid should not pay for care that someone else is liable for, and the statute has protections to ensure that States can recoup when other parties are liable financially."
"It seems just logical, and we should expect that that is going to happen if we are going to delay payments just to delay payments when we don't it anywhere else and there is no reason to delay it."
"Congress would be outreached if anyone proposed delaying payments to Medicare physicians for 90 days for a service provided."
"When Congress requests documents, we should get those documents."
"Chairman Macfarlane, do you acknowledge this committee's constitutional responsibility to provide oversight of the Executive Branch?"
"Well, I have serious questions about allowing individual Commissioners to object to producing specific documents to Congress."
"I want to use my opening remarks to comment on a really bad idea."
"And do you concede that in the absence of a claim of Executive Privilege, the NRC has no legal basis to withhold requested nonpublic documents from Congress?"