Danny Davis

What the IG community is most concerned about are the FISMA audits and other audits and evaluations and reviews we do of information technology, information security systems of our agencies.

President Obama made it a priority to reduce improper payments when he took office, and we should be pleased to see that over the past 3 years the Federal Government has avoided making $47 billion in improper payments.

I really think that all of the members of this committee agree that waste in government and unnecessary spending is unacceptable.

Obamacare raided $700 billion from Medicare, including $300 billion from Medicare Advantage alone, to pay for the ACA.

You can't keep your insurance, even if you liked it. You can't keep your doctor, even if you have been seeing him for the last 30 or 40 years.

I just came from a markup in Ways and Means, where, on a vote of 39 to 0, we voted to do a fix for three months of the SGR.

We finally banned insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions.

Before we passed the Affordable Care Act, there were about 50 million people in the United States without health insurance.

There will always be forces aligned against progress, against equality, and against basic human dignity.

Just that it was the combination of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Medicare-Medicaid Act of 1965 that definitively integrated the American healthcare system.

I think it just takes a bit of time. It will take some time with the Affordable Care Act and ultimately I think that Americans are going to feel the same way about the Affordable Care Act that we now feel about Medicare.

I believe that a good way to measure the greatness of a society is by how well it treats its young, how well it treats its elderly, and how well after it looks after those who have some difficulty handling their affairs effectively…

It is cruel and fiscally irresponsible.

Are we as a society better off now? The answer is a resounding yes.

It is hard to imagine a reason for this other than simple spite.

It was unhealthy, it was unfair, and it was unsustainable.

The security contractor 'has not been able to test all of the security controls in one complete version of the system.'

In Illinois, quite frankly, the launch has gone extremely well.

It is time really to start working together.

It is premature death.

Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Those Texans and Floridians and Hoosiers are simply out of luck.

Our country does have a serious problem, however, with access to quality health insurance, and it is not being caused by Web sites.

House Republicans have forced the government shutdown on the American people.

We have the Republican majority and their leadership that created the shutdown.