Tony Cárdenas

No one cares more for Native American children more than their tribes and their Indian families.

Especially from you, the Chairman, please do not stop asking the Federal Government for help and resources.

It appears to be a human side effect, not necessarily a tribal issue, specifically.

it is unfortunate that the responsibilities that the tribes take on for themselves sometimes don't come with equivalent funding opportunities

I would be surprised if you are competitive.

I am concerned because some fringe groups are using the situation in Spirit Lake to make the case that tribes cannot manage their own affairs.

Mr. Black, I want to commend you for taking on a responsibility that at times must feel like a thankless job.

Child abuse is wrong, period. And, as a society, we must ensure our young ones are protected at all times.

Thank you very much. Ms. Chang, when it comes to the activities that you are involved in at HHS...

So in other words, there is the allowance within the relationship between Federal employees and management and/or investigative authorities at the Federal level to get down to the bottom of improving what is going on within agencies, and…

Thank you very, very much, Mr. Chairman.

It is outrageous that 8 million people have been arrested in the last decade.

The President has acknowledged what most Americans know: marijuana is, frankly, not as dangerous to your health as tobacco.

Congress is also out of touch, I would suggest, because Congress established the schedules that you referenced in your opening statement.

Reducing healthcare costs requires that everyone be covered and that everyone be in the insurance pools.

But now that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, it has already begun helping them in many ways.

I represent the congressional district that has the highest number of uninsured in the entire country.

the implementation of a large-scale Federal Government program like Social Security takes time.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the panel for availing yourselves to this committee so that we can hopefully improve on our understanding of what is going on with healthcare in our Country.

Mr. Chairman, if I may, I appreciate that accurate portrayal of arriving at ideal solutions, but unfortunately we live in a very dynamic, humanistic world where ideal solutions will perhaps never be attained.

And fundamentally we have anywhere between 40 to 50-plus million people in this Country who, some of them, fall into that category that, no matter how hard they are going to try, the private industry is not going to provide for them;

history will look kindly back on the Affordable Care Act as just another in a long line of examples of American greatness.

the private sector has the right to ignore who they serve and where they draw the line at how much they are going to charge or not serve at all.

I will be an unceasing advocate for both of those programs, as well as other Federal programs.

But earlier in a discussion, as a result of a question from one of my colleagues, the three non-healthcare expert panelists, all of you seemed to agree that private sector is more efficient than Government when it comes to providing…