Too much has changed for the worse.

This problem of sexual assault is something that persists in our military.

We are fortunate, indeed, that President Obama has nominated Dr. Carter to be our next Secretary of Defense.

I think that we need to provide support to the Ukrainian government as they try to maintain a position--find their own way in Europe.

I think what you have done is worth supporting.

The people really need to be given a basis for hope, honestly.

The President's proposal takes care of more than a third of the cost of the SGR replacement reform.

We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond.

The problem obviously is real statistically, as Dr. Rivlin said, under almost any imaginable set of scenarios.

Former Senator Joe Lieberman warned that stakeholders who are pushing for unpaid SGR reform bill could actually sink the chances of getting a permanent fix adopted by Congress.

I believe that if reasonable minds can come together and forget the partisanship, we can figure this thing out.

If you are an organization representing physicians, for instance, and you push for this SGR replacement reform with no offset, the danger is----and it is a high risk----that nothing is going to happen and physicians are going to suffer.

This proposal is very concerning to me because I think that it is a little bit shortsighted.

Tom agreed that we should put a limit on how much out of pocket a Medicare beneficiary would have to pay, and that will have a significant----real but also psychological----effect on our seniors.

But it would also be a shame to let this moment pass without fixing this.

how important a maximum out-of-pocket protection--how important that is and how this is the reason most Americans buy health insurance.

It just seems----and we don't really say this enough and appreciate it enough----axiomatic, really self-evident that the part of why, generally speaking, we are living longer is because of the positive impact of prescription drugs.

if we do nothing, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent.

If you have got the will, you can do that.

Seize the moment.

Bipartisanship always comes as a result of negotiation and compromise and understanding that you are putting a larger interest, which is a national interest, ahead of a more focused interest.

this extraordinary achievement that began here in the subcommittee, which is to come to a bipartisan agreement on replacing the failed SGR formula, will not make it into reality unless there is an offset.

It is not as if the current system is fair to everybody.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

If we agree on 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent on this given issue, let's do it.