Bill Nelson

The change in the law was to end welfare as we know it.

But at least, even if they are under-employed, as Dr. Haskins points out, they have a chance to get the earned income tax credit.

I know my time is gone, but I would just ask rhetorically of the committee: is his success in Illinois a result of the new health care law, his PPO, or both?

That is true. And also bundle payments so that you are looking for the outcome. Instead of paying every little thing that happens, you get cheaper and you get better outcomes.

Well, with a star-studded panel like this, it is a good opportunity to try to point out, as we ease in to the new health care bill, some of the misunderstandings and confusion about the bill that this panel can help us understand.

What I would plead with the committee to consider doing is, if you cannot provide more money, let us look at ways to simplify the statute, simplify our responsibilities.

I would say this is the Congress's responsibility, not the executive branch's, to fix, and I would urge you to fix it as quickly as possible.

In a normal year, Mr. Chairman, this would be the kind of bill that would be considered a motherhood bill.

That would mean how many minutes? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is 6\1/2\ minutes remaining for the majority.

The measures proposed in the Park Service plan represent the most extreme tools available for making fishery management modifications to Biscayne National Park, ignoring alternative ways to achieve the desired resource improvements without…

I just want to say, if it's any consolation, the highest point in Florida is 350 feet, so not a lot of hills and valleys, and very spotty coverage.

Do you find that the recall for Internet ads is much lower than the recall for TV ads?

How do advertisers understand that they are being charged appropriately on the Internet as compared to the satisfaction and confidence that they have in the number of eyeballs that are watching a TV program because of you?

That is being greeted with exceptional excitement and approval among the rural areas

We need to consult with folks like this on what Congress should do in the updating of our video and communications laws.

I'm a true believer in net neutrality. I want everything to go out to everybody. I don't want anybody stopping anything.

If I use myself as an example, a TV program goes dark, and an ad comes up. Now, maybe my mind is watching it or not, but that's what's filling the space.

The fruits of your labors in getting broadband... have helped my state enormously as well.

You have given us more subpoena power, you have increased the sentences, which also serve to be an incredible deterrent in this type of crime.

To what degree do you think the storefronts that are shells are still a problem?

We went through and reduced outlier payments. We encouraged face-to-face visits with physicians.

What about the Senior Medicare Patrol? Is this a way of involving senior citizens on Medicare to really be our eyes and ears?

Well then, Mr. Chairman, it is certainly a compliment to you and the health care bill that at least those shells, those storefronts, that is moving out of there.

Six. So 26 million acres are under lease in the Gulf of Mexico and are not being produced.

Just in the gulf, 32 million acres. Guess how many acres are actually drilled and producing?