Peter Roskam

We all wanted to prevent taxes from going up on middle-class workers.

It was a very compelling argument, a very successful argument.

Because this is a zero-sum game, right?

It is a selective admission process. And their argument is, look, this shows that the system isn't being abused and so forth.

So when these things are manipulated--and I know that is a characterization, but I will characterize it as a manipulation--when they are manipulated, they are manipulated for benefit of one at the demise of another hospital or the demise…

In a siloed payment system, there is no accountability.

That is unsustainable, and that, I think, is one of the factors that is driving part of our challenge today.

It is almost as if we have asked, you know, how much does your spouse weigh or something.

Popularity notwithstanding, there is a real challenge there in terms of the reality.

My comments were designed to illustrate the very difficult trade-offs. There is no party that has a monopoly on empathy or sympathy here with respect to pursuing tax reform.

So your testimony today is that the trustees, the people that are calling balls and strikes on this, are saying that in a period of 6 years, a third of the beneficiaries are going to be out of the system.

Mr. Cosgrove, in your testimony before the Government Reform Committee in July, and again before us today, you note that CMS enacted a demonstration that was seven times larger than any since 1995.

President Obama during the large discussions around the passage of the new health care law made much of the argument that if you like your plan you are going to be able to keep it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Yes, there is every intention to move forward on that which the gentleman and the majority leader have been working so cooperatively on, and there is an expectation that that will be done before the…

I don't have information to announce at this point in terms of the timing. I have a high level of confidence that no one is going to be going home for very long absent a remedy and a joint response on all of our parts.

Well, as the gentleman knows, making things permanent in this arena with this conundrum of rules and limitations--and limitations particularly in the other body--make that difficult. I, speaking on behalf of myself, think that that rate at…

I thank my friend for yielding. As the gentleman knows, the farm bill has created a lot of concern on our side of the aisle. It's my understanding that there is concern on the gentleman's side of the aisle. Your ranking member supports the…

As the gentleman knows, the 2001 and the 2003 tax rates have been well vetted and well discussed. They're not news or breaking ground in any way, shape, or form. So my understanding is that the current thinking is to bring those directly…

I think encouraging Russia to integrate into the global economy, to play by international rules, to encourage the emergence of rule of law in Russia is a very smart strategic investment for the United States.

There is an unbelievable opportunity that we have as a Committee, the committee of jurisdiction over a Tax Code that is wildly unpopular.

This Committee and this Congress in the coming months are going to have decisions to make as it relates to the extension of the 2001 and the 2003 tax cuts and those rates.

The Democratic leader of the House, when she was the speaker, sort of famously now prophesied that we had to pass the bill in order to see what was in it.

We represent only about 1 percent of the universe of all small businesses in the U.S.

We are taking them to court. They have a very close service market.

I'll be honest. With many of our small businesses, the best advice we tell them, you be very careful about going to a country like China.