Bill Nelson

Then it became a hell-hole.

This is just now coming to light as we are trying to get a court order to exhume some of the graves.

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2013 would expand physician training support.

So it is intriguing, and I wanted to know what you thought about it.

With that much loss outside of the Northeast Corridor, how can you justify doing what you do, other than it is a government service?

Now, I am from Florida. Sadly, the attempt to build high-speed rail was rejected by our Governor, and we had a project ready to go.

OK. So, then, my interpretation was correct. You have a $400 million to $500 million loss, but the Federal Government subsidizes that----

So there is not a $400 million to $500 million loss each year?

And then when the Florida Department of Transportation estimates came out, it would have shown that it would have actually made $10 million in the first year on the expected ridership.

Well, that is true. I mean, the state has to give them the ability on the state right-of-way along this expressway...

It is what Congress has to justify.

Well, what I interpret they want to do is, they own the tracks----

Well, you know the attacks against the President's proposal and the amendment 4 years ago. It is going to reduce research, it is going to limit access, it is going to result in higher consumer prices.

All the new doctors we are going to need to implement the health care bill, we cannot keep cutting graduate medical education, which is a Medicare subsidy for residents.

Madam Secretary, we are losing a lot of money to Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud as well, and we are going to be having a hearing on this in the Aging Committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, thank you for your public service.

We, of course, are trying to get results, Mr. Administrator.

Unfortunately, I think most of us think that this sequester's not going to go away until the new fiscal year, so we are facing a problem--as we would say in Florida, 'a problema.'

But, your problem is one of dollars.

Well, you don't give me a lot to report back to my 14 airports. They are very grateful, by the way, that some of them that were going to be closed in April are not going to be closed until June.

If we fail to reverse the decrease in FAA's budget, we will not have an aviation system that we need to compete in a global economy.

Sequestration is not our friend, and it's affecting every aspect of the FAA's operations.

I know my colleagues share these concerns, and we will likely be discussing that today.

I would urge you and Senator Hatch to get this legislation moving.

That is a pretty good return on your investment.