Diana DeGette actually said...

"And if Congress had not made this program budget neutral, would it be fair to say that the payments from the risk-corridor program would have likely made a difference in keeping a lot of these CO-OPs ..."

"What's the public interest in having that Federal backstop for these small boats?"

"I want to thank our witnesses for coming today, and I want to start with the risk-mitigation mechanisms in the law, which we commonly refer to as the three Rs, as I mentioned earlier."

"Now, the risk corridor program also ended up not coming through to the CO-OPs as we learned very painfully in Colorado in the last couple of weeks."