"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for starting sort of the opening bell here for the next reauthorization effort..."
"I think, you know, expressed a pretty powerful support for maintaining the nutritional standards that were in the 2010 bill."
"If there is a gap in terms of, you know, the rules versus your operating, we want that information because, frankly, there are other ways to solve that problem rather than weakening standards."
"education is one of those that could "pay the price," quote, unquote, if we just had a sort of lopsided approach to dealing with sequestration."
"Rates went down. They didn't go up in 2015. The savings were in the millions to both small employers, individual health care plans, and across the board."
"We are now into year two of the exchange operations. And again, we have seen dramatic increases in terms of uninsured."
"if we are gonna get off of the political theater and really focus on legislating, we can actually I think do some good things."
"this is still a flawed mechanism; that the incidence of tax is gonna hit basically regions of the country geographically."
"the fact is it was the Senate Finance Committee that, frankly, adopted a lot of economic thought, that taxing health benefits has been a mistake in America going back to World War II."
"now is the time to do it."
"But, frankly, it was nothing but high praise from the Navy partners in terms of the work that the Coast Guard was doing in that mission."