"Congress is also out of touch, I would suggest, because Congress established the schedules that you referenced in your opening statement."
"The President has acknowledged what most Americans know: marijuana is, frankly, not as dangerous to your health as tobacco."
"But now that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, it has already begun helping them in many ways."
"Reducing healthcare costs requires that everyone be covered and that everyone be in the insurance pools."
"I represent the congressional district that has the highest number of uninsured in the entire country."
"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 ..."
"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 Gover..."
"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."
"the implementation of a large-scale Federal Government program like Social Security takes time."
"history will look kindly back on the Affordable Care Act as just another in a long line of examples of American greatness."
"I will be an unceasing advocate for both of those programs, as well as other Federal programs."