"Last year my colleague on this committee Ben Ray Lujan and I introduced the Promoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act."
"So that people can do the right thing, corporations or individuals can do the right thing, and at the same time they can get some help in actually doing the right thing?"
"We need more assistance from the state and Federal Government at the local level to be able to do this."
"Are many of the people that would be let go, per se, if we legislatively failed to do our job here, would that--you are talking about jobs, people who are specialists, or what kind of jobs are they?"
"Do our job legislatively by the September '17 deadline."
"Is it fair to say that getting so close to September 2017 creates kind of a little bit of nervousness amongst people who are trying to get their work done in such an environment?"
"And something such as a year of that revamping to just restore back to where it was, doesn't that cause a compounding effect potentially when it comes to the actual work being done going forward not o..."
"What I hope that we can prevent as Members of Congress, as legislators, as responsible elected officials, that we not go back to those days."
"We have had nearly 8 years of talk about replace, but we have come up with nothing better in that time."
"Why are we spending time analyzing a half-finished bill that doesn't take care of all the issues that were promised..."
"The big picture is the more than 74 million Americans today that have a life of dignity because they are using Medicaid and Medicare."