Diana DeGette

Unlawful again seems to be a little bit extreme.

I would hardly call that a taxpayer funded giveaway.

Nobody can argue that 20 million new Americans have insurance because of the Affordable Care Act.

Good Government illuminates the shortcomings and causes of institutional failures and thereby it informs any substantive changes in public policy.

I believe in Government oversight. In fact, I have urged the chairman of the full committee and you, Mr. Chairman, to have meaningful oversight hearings around the Affordable Care Act because I do believe there are some things that can be…

Has anything of value been achieved through these efforts? Have we actually changed or modified the Affordable Care Act to work better? No, we haven't.

The broad declarations in the summary and press materials are presented ambiguously and are inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented in the report.

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Frankly, I am glad that we haven't had wide systematic impacts, but it doesn't matter whether we have had it, if it could occur.

As a former constitutional lawyer, I was really quite dismayed to hear Commissioner's Pai's testimony about that the commissioners are prohibited from commenting on future rules.

I think we need to be working together to make sure that we can get these benefits all around the country.

So, under your leadership, what you are saying is that when there is a proposed rulemaking, commissioners are allowed to exercise their first amendment rights and speak about the pending proceedings.

I think it is important that the commissioners can exercise their first amendment rights without releasing that language.

The Affordable Care Act has improved millions of Americans' lives.

This budget definitely is something that makes critical investments in the long-term health and well-being of America's families.

To make the investments that we talk about in that bill effective, we need to provide leaders at the NIH the ability to make decisions.

I don't think that any kind of border control, even building a wall, is going to stop these vector-borne diseases from coming over.

This is what keeps me up at night, is the responsibility that this subcommittee has to actually move the ball forward.

I am really proud to be leading this bill with Representative Ellmers, truly working across the aisle, literally, today.

Do you believe that the Medicaid expansion has played a significant role in these reductions?

When you see families get access to health care for the first time, it changes their participation in the community in many profound ways, but it keeps them healthier.

I hope that is what we will do in the next year, but frankly, I don't hold out a lot of hope.

This would be a tragedy for the American people and a gross failure of leadership.

But millions of Americans are benefitting from it, and a lot of people like me think we could be making it even better.

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