People are hurting. When you have your electricity shut off, they are hurting.

Mr. President, whenever a Senator, such as Senator Pryor from Arkansas, has to announce to the Senate the loss of a near personal friend, especially one he has been friends with, and with their parents, for years, it is always a tremendous…

At the end of the day, what we are trying to do is help people.

That is a step in the right direction.

Would it not have been a wise thing to do, to be beneficial to the people that are making the claim, to know how those claims were going to be evaluated before they submitted those claims?

As in any big organization, somewhere it has broken down with, for example, the two I just mentioned.

If you would attend to that, I sure would appreciate it.

I want to bring those frustrations to you, Mr. Feinberg, respectfully.

the repeal of the health legislation would increase budget deficits by something on the order of $230 billion

the health care bill as it is passed right now and as it is law is roughly going to save the Federal Government in the next 10 years about a quarter of a trillion dollars

So we see less of a robust recovery as a result of all this Federal money not going to the States for things that are hard to see because they are not roads and bridges that are being built.