"I think you are being sabotaged. And I think it is un-American at this point in time, when this law has passed, we are in the process of implementing it, that you don't have the resources to do the jo..."
"We can guarantee that it will fail if we don't give you the resources to actually roll it out properly."
"So maybe that money we spent on that failed computer system could have been better spent here."
"I think this hearing should focus on the thousands of leases for millions of acres of Federal land and water that oil and gas companies are sitting on, but not producing on."
"Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to collect the full amount of revenues and royalties that these companies owe the Americ..."
"Let me repeat that: at high risk for waste, fraud, and abuse; precisely the kinds of issues that this committee should be focused on."
"the two delayed lease sales would have auctioned off approximately 33,000 acres of public land."
"BLM processing time has decreased. In fact, in 2006 it took 127 days; in 2011 it now takes 71 days."
"The cost of health care in this Country is one of the huge drivers for personal budgets and for the public budget as well."
"Health care is not a buyer's market, it is a seller's market."
"The medical economy is clearly a different world than we face in any other parts of our lives."
"It is a book of fiction that only applies to people who come into the hospital who don't have insurance."