Mr. President, on August 4, the U.S. Coast Guard will celebrate its 227th anniversary. On this special occasion, I want to commend the men and women of the Coast Guard for their valiant service on, under, and over our Nation's high seas…

We need to ensure that consumers are protected from fraud.

If these payments are stopped, there will be real consequences.

As I have said throughout this process, we need to come together and seek bipartisan solutions to fix the Affordable Care Act and not undo all of the good things its done.

All fraud does is it hurt insurance companies, hurt the people, and hurt the providers, and hurt the agents.

We can also work in a bipartisan manner to fund payments that lower Americans' out-of-pockets costs.

Individual states, not the Federal Government, continue to be the primary regulators of insurance.

First, do no harm.

But yet they participate and understand the importance of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

Of course, my state, when it comes to recreational, charter boats, as well as commercial fishing, we're known as the capital of the fishing world.

Clearly, Mr. Chairman, your State of Alaska is one of the most fertile fisheries around.