I think it is hard to see how an empty-chair hearing would accomplish anything, and I think it is a profound waste of everybody's time.
I am pleased that we are having this hearing today on Medicare Secondary Payer issues.
And it frankly seems very unfair for beneficiaries to face huge and unexpected demands to pay funds back to Medicare yea...
And so obviously this program is important in making sure that taxpayers are protected and that the Medicare program is ...
we have to grapple with this, and we have to grapple with it in a way that is science-based, not in a way that is based ...
I wish the majority, rather than complaining in vague terms about the regulatory reform efforts and the unemployment rat...
In January of this year, President Obama issued an Executive order directing Federal agencies to develop plans for impro...
I have always been a proponent of regulatory reform, but I don't think regulations are--I don't think regulations per se...
When I talk to businesses in my district, small and large, one of the great frustrations is obsolete regulations.
So that might affect a regulation that was a bad regulation or a good regulation; right? It's a great big mallet that co...
Sometimes regulations are not cost-effective, and they should either be fixed or repealed. But sometimes regulations pro...