I commend you for them. If my life depended on it, I could not tell you what Hillarycare did.

Reducing childhood obesity and opioid addiction are critical priorities for HHS.

I want to take a moment just to commend you and Senator Grassley for something you did--gosh, I want to say 24 years ago.

When Barack Obama left office--was it a perfect administration? No. When he left office, there was an insurer in every county of every State in this country.

I am pleased that the Department supports the continuation of this program, which is set to expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

I understand that we had originally scheduled for, in about 1 minute, a vote on cloture on the new Iran sanctions bill. I understand that the cloture vote has been delayed until early this afternoon. This comes on the heels of an…

When we talk about cutting $800 billion out of the program, it is not just the poor women and children who are going to get hurt, it is those old people.

I hope that is sooner rather than later.

They are creating the swamp.

I just do not agree.

This Administration, I will tell you, and I know that some others have been asking questions about responsiveness, this is the worst responsiveness I have ever seen.

Harry Truman used to say the only thing that is new in the world is the history we forgot or never learned.

When I first heard the words 'St. Elizabeths,' I thought, Why would we spend that much money on creating a campus, if you will, a home, a consolidated home for the Department of Homeland Security?

Much of it is generated by our insatiable appetite for drugs, that those countries are nearly failed States.

I am not a big believer that we need a 2,000-mile wall.

We said, 'You solve them. You can do it, and we can help.'

The miracle can happen. I mean, Colombia did it.

All right. And 'we' is 'us.' Give us some advice.

It is rare that we have a hearing that is both illuminating and terrifying, and this is really both.

I said earlier this is all hands on deck. I am an old Navy guy.

Even choirs need to be preached to.

I am going to be asking for the record if there are any amendments, any changes that should be made to the STOP Act.

We want to have additional postal revenues in order that they can, among other things, modernize their mail processing centers.

We probably will not be either. But give us just a great takeaway in terms of our to-do list here on our end, on the Congressional end.

There must be some way we can incentivize these folks.