Thank you very much, Mr. Rother. We appreciate it very much.
It has been his inspiration for four decades to try and get a national healthcare plan in place that is accessible and affordable and is val...
the present situation is no longer not only unacceptable, it is unsustainable.
We need to be thinking also, as we reform and re-engineer the healthcare system, about the different roles public health will be playing.
We are very proud of the fact that we have removed the financial incentive from the decisionmaking around medicine.
I totally endorse your maternal benefits.
I've chaired or been the ranking member over the years of the Subcommittee on Children and Families.
The work on children is something that a lot of us, all of us, care about up here.
I don't think there's any argument that obesity is not one of the causes of four chronic illnesses we are grappling with.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has been my best ally.
I want to thank my colleague from Wyoming, thank him for his support on this last vote we had on the tobacco issue, an historic moment that ...