Karen Thurman: “Before Medicare, we had private insurance. We have Medicare because there was no coverage under private insurance.”

And we could say the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Berkley) has given us a wonderful opportunity to understand what happened in Nevada. And it would seem to me that it would be something this Congress ought to be looking at where the…

We keep hearing this 30 percent. Actually, there has been a letter dated by the CBO on July 26 that says that they are confused, that there has been some confusion about the meaning of the 30 percent cost management factor that CBO applied…

I stand today to say that I support the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Davis). This is a project that, in fact, is going to be completed by this winter, about 753 miles long. The fact of the matter is that in my…

We just got the report. It is 150 pages long. We are going to continue to dissect it and try to figure out if there are some things that we might catch onto. But there is an issue in the report that does concern me, and it is the one that…