it is the passion that you continue to carry, from being one of the coauthors of the Affordable Care Act, that you bring to the chairmanship of this committee in such things as the hearing today, how to make it better.

On February 15, 2013, Navy notified private-sector ship repair contractors of potential cancellations of third and fourth quarter ship maintenance availabilities.

Madam President, I wish to ask my colleagues to support the Hagel nomination. Let me just hit a couple of highlights. He volunteered to go into the Army during Vietnam. He was assigned to Germany. He volunteered to go to Vietnam. His…

Now my question would be, what are you going to do about it since CO-OPs, in fact, are estimated to bring down the cost 10 to 15 percent for the consumers, for the premium-payers?

the law says that there is going to be a health insurance exchange come 2014.

So I want somebody to be accountable for this and, if it was a mistake, for somebody to own up to it.

one of those incentives that we put in the law was the community-oriented health plans.

the health care law is working. Now, there are a couple of big obstacles in the way.

Mr. Chairman, if we have this kind of implementation, then we are not going to fulfill the goal that we all set when we laboriously put together, in your committee, this health care bill.

Well, I can tell you that the representative of the Majority Leader, Kate Leone, in the negotiations, has told this Senator that, first of all, HHS had put CO-OPs on the table as a source of revenue.

I want to thank you for that, because what you did was, you smoothed it out so that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and I could bring unanimity.