Not only will this legislation save Medicare money, it will save the lives of many of its beneficiaries.

Centers of Excellence has already been proven to decrease mortality and lower cost.

if someone offers you a sweetheart deal that is too good to be true, it either isn't true, or it is cutting a legal corner.

the incentive for gross over-utilization of services in these kinds of deals is enormous.

I am honored to co-sponsor the Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999.

today the House considers whether the information sent to the Congress for consideration in the Independent Counsel Report warrants the start of an impeachment inquiry by the House

I would like to include in the Congressional Record a letter that I received from Mayor Roberta Cooper of Hayward, CA

As the Subcommittee on Crime begins its consideration of H.R. 3527, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, I urge you to look at the effects of the nation's oldest assault weapons ban, California's Roberti-Roos…

I saw the ad. I took the trouble to vet them out. They are not worth the paper that ad is printed on.

I believe the key element is what is missing in your plan, and that is that every American gets health insurance, and you do not do that.

I do not find that it is necessary to mandate them, and I find that alliances, like managed care, grow quite well by themselves, thank you.

I support the concept of collective buying and I support the concept of consumer empowerment. I don't think it is necessary to make it mandatory.