Phil Gingrey: “The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration.”

President Obama campaigned that his plan was going to lower premiums across the country by $2,500 a year, and here we are 3 years later with premiums higher by $3,000 with a large jump expected again next year.

If this administration has the authority to implement changes within the Medicare program that could prevent billions in lost funds annually and it is not using them, I believe, Mr. Chairman, that the administration owes us an accounting…

the federal government has this bad tendency of torching a village to kill a gnat, and I think that is the real problem here

I thank Jim for yielding some of his time. Primarily, I will report on the Congressional Study Groups program. As a Member, I had the honor of co-chairing the Congressional Study Group on Germany for, I think, 4 years. It was absolutely…