Are you confident enough that under the legislation you have the authority to make any changes in the program to make it financially solvent in the long term?
I do not agree myself with Congress appropriating $120 million for an insolvent program.
Thank you for your stewardship of this vast and complex Department.
The American people will not allow the hard-earned protections and benefits in this law to be taken away.
I appreciate the support of Congress, particularly Chairman Harkin, on efforts to fight Medicare fraud.
I happen to think the community health center has been one of the great underpinnings of our health system in America.
I commend your Department and your leadership in that area.
I believe efforts to repeal it are ill-advised, and trying to fight last year's or last couple years' battles.
We have made America a more compassionate and more just society.
Oh, Senator Harkin, there are just a few bad actors out there. Just one or two, you get rid of them, and you are fine.
the abuses are structural, not just a result of lax enforcement.