Your testimony is silent about the Administration's plan to link Medicare Part B payments to prices paid in other wealthy countries.

the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services is continuing to cut critical programs addressing minority health disparities, and I find that very disconcerting.

That is not the road that we need to go down. That is not what this Agency is about.

I have nothing else to say. This is absurd, and I hope [off audio].

I see the impact on the parents and on their kids, and this is such an invaluable program.

I think that the notion that where we have to go is entitlement reform, misses the big picture.

You have concluded on what basis that scarce resources, key labor standards agencies, are better spent on a program that potentially has no impact rather than a robust enforcement program.

I want to note my strong opposition to the Administration's proposed changes to Title 10.

You can't talk about voting for life and pick and choose those issues that you believe are going to promote life.

You are extending the program without any knowledge of its effectiveness.

That is irresponsible in terms of your job with regard to oversight, and as it has to do with Federal taxpayers' dollars.

Well, let me just say this. I thank you for your information--my time is up--but it is not working.

That is inaccurate. It flies in the face of decades of Federal law with regard to the Hyde Amendment.

We want Federal law to pre-empt it.

I strongly believe that this policy is an unconstitutional violation of the freedom of speech of physicians.

This rule is about benefitting big corporations and not working people.

If we move in the direction of what is currently now in the NAFTA agreement, you are not going to be able to get where you want to go.

Why, on your watch as the Secretary of Education, do you want to be complicit in shutting off public education opportunities?

If it were up to me I would ban advertising.

20 percent, as I said, is maybe a wish, but it isn't going to happen.

Let me be crystal clear, Mr. Secretary. Not on my watch.

You cannot do more with less. You can only do less with less.

In a budget that, again, has been, in my view, full of cruel cuts to education programs, it baffles me that you found room for a $60 million increase to the Charter School Program, or CSP, especially when you consider recent reports of…

Not on our watch, Mr. Secretary.

Let's make sure that we are fingerprinting those people who are taking care of our kids.