The Affordable Care Act makes major strides to improve the way Medicare deals with physicians and other providers.

I think there is plenty to be done to be able to improve the way the healthcare system works and rolls for everybody.

In Medicare, of course, we are pursuing some similar projects in the form of accountable care organizations and other shared savings arrangements.

I have always been a supporter of allowing managed care choice for Medicare beneficiaries.

With gasoline prices over $4.00 a gallon in some cities, the cost of our dependence on oil is glaringly apparent to consumers.

Production has increased dramatically since that time. Our domestic crude oil production has increased by nearly 300,000 barrels a day.

The private sector can and must do a better job of safeguarding sensitive personal information.

I would like to thank Chairman Bono Mack for holding this timely and important hearing.

The mission of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is to license and regulate the Nation's civilian use of nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to…

I am hopeful this committee can again in a bipartisan fashion pass the Data Accountability and Trust Act.

Mr. Grazer appears to be alleging that you delayed action on the Yucca Mountain report for political purposes.

Chairman Shimkus has alleged that your decisions about Yucca Mountain are 'illegal' and 'politics at the highest level.'

The committee should not be holding hearings without essential witnesses. It's not a good use of the committee's time.

I think that openness in government is important, but I don't think this hearing is really about openness in government.

I want to see some sunlight on that conversation.

this hearing is what it is, and I think it is pretty clear it is not about open government, it is about politics.

I've long been a proponent of transparency in the executive branch. Transparency improves decision making, it makes government more accountable, it produces better results.

The President said on C-SPAN he wanted to have the negotiations televised.

The President hoped the Republicans would have worked for the national interest in trying to work out a health-care bill.

the administration should be ready to show up when we want them to.

If we have a right to know about people in the executive branch, why don't we have a right to know about the people here in the legislative branch?

the hearing is being held, it seems to me, more to give Members on the Republican side of the aisle an opportunity to say, 'They didn't come, they wouldn't come.'

I want to find out where it was written that my Republican friends would come up with this idea about lying what was in the bill.

To his credit, President Obama has taken important steps to increase transparency in the White House.

I am beginning to see a pattern in my short period of time here, and it is very concerning, that has the administration not sending people to hearings to answer questions of Congress.