Would you say that the industry could do more in perhaps encouraging that kind of review?

I believe that our rate review system should absolutely be strengthened by providing more transparency and accountability.

What more can the Administration do, do you think, to encourage more accountable and effective review systems across the country given its present authority?

I want to thank the Chairman for having this hearing on a very important topic.

I wish to join others of my colleagues in thanking and commending the majority leader, Senator Reid, for his tireless and relentless work in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. He has been a model for me as a new Member of the Senate…

I would first like to commend and thank Senator Reid for his tireless and relentless hard work, and my Democratic colleagues, but also some of my Republican colleagues-- Senator Johnny Isakson, for example--who have demonstrated their…

And that situation could be recurring for citizens around the globe at this moment given the lawlessness of many regimes in this world.

I don't need to tell anybody in this Chamber that our Nation is at a crossroads. We are at a crossroads. We have said for many months that we would be at this point, and now we are here. For months, we have said we will need to make tough…

Well, thank you, and I again want to thank you for your courage, there and here, and giving the entire Committee who will review this testimony, and their staffs, the benefit of this really firsthand experience with this lawless regime…

the beauty of what you are talking about is that it is comprehensive.

we need to move beyond that. And these numbers are obviously artificial.

I really commend you. I know a lot of the members of the committee join me in welcoming and commending that work.

That is a very powerful story, and I want to thank you and Mayor Bridges as well for your leadership by opening your home.

it is important that we all, all Americans, work toward improving the STEM pipeline in K-12 education.

Thank you, Senator Schumer. Thank you for holding this hearing and for your leadership, longstanding leadership in this area.

What I hear in Connecticut... is that a lot of the employers have openings, but they can't find the workers for the skills.

You have the right to remain silent.

it is very important to deal with inadequacies and rooms for loopholes in the current system.

I think the real key today is to focus on green cards.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Senator Schumer, and thank you all for your very moving and inspiring testimony here today.

And don't we have an obligation to enable taxpayers and seniors to have lower drug prices by using the Federal Government's bargaining power to lower those drug prices?

Wouldn't you recommend that the confines of the statute, as you have adroitly put it, be changed so that the public interest could be better served to lower drug prices?

I am indeed, and thank you for your leadership on that legislation, Mr. Chairman.

no matter how good these rules, they have to be enforced vigorously and fairly.

And there's no other way to view it than as a kind of loophole, giveaway, sweetheart deal that raises the cost of drugs at a time when the cost of drugs is already spiraling upward; correct?