WALLY HERGER

If we utilize more of our natural resources, we can foster job growth, generate revenue for the treasury, and help prevent catastrophic forest fires.

When they created the monument, did they ask anybody, anybody from Escalante how they felt about it?

I don't see where the monument has brought in any jobs for our community.

However, we must ensure that consolidation is not simply used as a tool to increase revenues by driving up Medicare spending and the cost of private health insurance.

I admire what Canada has done. I also remember back in the days when I am old enough to remember when you bought gasoline, and you had when you filled your tank exactly how many cents of tax you were paying.

The findings of the Medicare trustees are alarming. Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund is expected to go bankrupt five years sooner than last year and was forced to redeem $32.3 billion in bonds last year so that it could pay medical…

We cannot wish it away or ignore it, as some have chosen to do, or demagogue it away.

The current rate of growth in Medicare spending is unsustainable.

It is very important for us to get this area of international taxation right, because it seems like the United States is falling behind in global economy.

Medicare spending is on an unsustainable path, and we must find a better way.

The program will soon go bankrupt if changes are not made.

I believe that the future of Medicare depends on a transition away from the fragmented fee-for-service system.

There is widespread agreement that Congress must abandon the practice of short-term patches to avoid cuts to physician payment rates, which only make the problem larger and more expensive to fix.

Republicans and Democrats alike have kicked the can down the road long enough.

Our work in this area has perhaps never been more important.

solutions imposed from Washington often times result in terrible consequences for patients

It is very discouraging to those who would like to work their way up the income level to better themselves.

Certainly the spending, this massive spending is at the heart of much of the concern that I hear when I am in my northern California district.

Every program, no matter how important, must be scrutinized to ensure that scarce taxpayer dollars are being used appropriately and efficiently.

During this Congress, we must come together to address a fiscal crisis of monumental proportions.

MedPAC provides valuable technical advice and counsel to Congress on the Medicare program, ranging from recommendations on payment adequacy to ways in which we can improve the delivery and quality of care for seniors and people with…

Medicare beneficiaries would almost certainly face increasingly severe problems with access to care.

I appreciate your dedication to creating a high-quality health care system, but I think we have some very fundamental disagreements about how to achieve that goal.

America was built on the free enterprise system.

their near-unanimous opinion is that this health care law is going to absolutely be devastating to their small businesses, and to creating jobs.