Tom Carper

That is what we used to say in the Navy.

We cannot forget them. I am not going to, and I do not think you want us to do that.

I think finding a way to get better competition and less regulation, I think, would free up and bring more carriers into the market.

Insurance does not work really well when you are only insuring the people who really need it.

It would devastate those pools, because you would have the healthy holding out until they got sick.

My Republican colleagues, several of them, have recently introduced legislation to roll back the individual mandate.

Medicaid expansion has been critical to lowering the cost of private insurance and improving the health of their residents.

The Affordable Care Act is working in their States, lowering the uninsured rate and improving their insurance marketplaces.

We had the longest markup in history on the Finance Committee.

We need to bring down the cost of health care.

I would like thank the senior Senator from South Carolina for his support and thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, in both Chambers, that are working so hard to get this issue resolved as soon as possible this year. I thank the…

I am encouraged that you and your colleagues have held literally hundreds of stakeholder meetings.

I would concur with you on the last one, because the prevention model is very encouraging.

I want to thank you, also, for your help with the first Accountable Care Organization in our State and the work that you and your staff did to give the doctors in Delaware and in Maryland another chance to prove that they can deliver…

I think he works hard for the money, he works hard for our money, and I would just urge us to move his nomination.

We have a vote that has been called, and so we have a short amount of time.

I think we need to stay on top of it like we stayed on top of it in 2016 to deliver this year on this budget.

Sometimes we let women do these jobs, like Janet Napolitano.

I was an earlier doubter that St. Elizabeths made sense to try to consolidate everything in one campus. I am not a doubter anymore.

I have been pleased with how both the George W. Bush Administration and the Obama Administration have taken a more active role in Federal real property management.

I hope these 7 months that lie ahead for the administration and for you, if confirmed--and I think you will be--I just would encourage you and your team that you work with to just get as much done as you can.

I just want to note something. We talked earlier that there is roughly 7 months to go for this administration.

The solemn task that this is, as you saw in Costa Rica, the fact that we are able to do this and do it smoothly and without issue from one party to the next is just an extraordinary feat of American democracy.

We just had a wonderful signing ceremony of the legislation that bears the name of former Senator Ted Kaufman and former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt.

So maybe 80 years from now when your tombstone is erected, it might also say, 'He was also against improper payments.'