Well, Professor Warren, this is just the kind of thing we had hoped you would be doing.

Before I begin my remarks, I too want to acknowledge my good friend, Lynn Woolsey, for 20 really illustrious years in the Congress. I cannot imagine why she would want to end her illustrious career here so early. We will miss her. I should…

So isn't it the case that the Affordable Care Act, by correcting this overpayment, in fact, saved Medicare funds for the first time that anyone has been able to do so in any large amount of funds?

But as we know, the trustees--I'm sorry. Yes, the trustees have to let us know when the general funds are being tapped to pay for Part D.

Could I ask you now, in the Affordable Care Act we closed the doughnut hole over time. Now, how do we pay for that?

More than 25 years ago, the Congress charged the Defense Department to identify and then to clean up and remediate properties which the department had owned or leased in order to test chemical munitions. Congress did so because these…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The amount otherwise made available by this…

Metro bus and rail service plays an indispensable role in the day-to-day operations of the Federal Government.

Most of us did not know--I don't believe I knew until the crash--that there were no national rail standards.

I was astonished that bus drivers... were being attacked apparently often enough so that a job action was threatened.

I regret that that has to be done, but you can't ask somebody to drive a bus if you are going to be assaulted, and you don't know who is going to get on your bus and do so.

I think Federal Government involvement in terms of making sure that, even if the State agencies are doing it as an oversight, that there is some overlaying uniform set of criteria so that everyone lives up to the same standards I think is…