Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I feel so honored to be chosen to testify today, as I was in 2004 when I joined Senator Blumenthal to testify at a hearing on Lyme disease in Hartford."

"I am pleased to submit this testimony to the permanent record of the hearing of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee."

"The insurance companies, from what I've understood and heard here today, continue to be a problem, a problem in the sense that they are still resistant to providing coverage in many instances."

"I'm very hopeful that the measure that I proposed and that Senator Gillibrand has co-sponsored and others around the country--it is a bipartisan coalition."