"The number one issue in America was: How do we control the cost of care?"
"We had a group of people who did not have access to affordable insurance coverage in this country."
"There is a huge cost for defensive medicine in this nation."
"This bill did increase access to a program that has already failed, which is the Medicaid system."
"The cost of private health insurance has gone up so rapidly in this country, is the cost shifting."
"A 2,500-page bill got written. And you could do two-thirds of it with two paragraphs."
"I guess my definition of fairness isn't the same as was previously described when 45 percent of the American people don't pay any income tax at all."
"should the Federal Government, through an agency like the EPA, be telling our children these things?"
"I totally agree. We recycle everything. We want to do that. We want a clean environment for our children and grandchildren."
"the Environmental Protection Agency is not the avenue for the government to address these issues."
"what are we planning on doing to reimburse businesses when this is, again, another indication of retroactive, I think, policymaking through regulation"
"how come in the original permitting process that the EPA didn't identify the waterway issue up front before the company investing $250 million in the business?"