Pat Roberts

I think I heard you say in your opening comments--and I have written it down here--that you have met 1,500 times with members of Congress on trade.

I just am worried a little bit about the majority leader. I hope you can fill his glass. His glass is half empty. Make the glass full if you could, sir.

I think the companies are making the decision due to the law, but we will get past that.

I do not know where we came up with 96 hours. I mean, you could do 120, 72, 48 hours, whatever.

I could not agree more.

I think this increase would cost jobs.

The question is, is a policy that reduces small business jobs a way to benefit the country?

there are towns in Kansas, no doctors in the area at all.

No, sir. In the interest of time, I do have a question of the witnesses, but I will wait.

I think that is the statement by Ms. Pipes.

Did you say that you could get a hip replacement for a dog in a week, but you could not get a hip replacement for an individual for X-number of weeks?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I have legislation that I call the Four Rationers Repeal bill.

The President of the United States has changed the healthcare law.

It established the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, an unelected, unaccountable board of 15 bureaucrats empowered to make cuts to the Medicare program most likely in the form of cuts to doctors.

At the time Obamacare was being debated in this very committee, I warned that it was the wrong direction for our country.

The President promised that if you like your plan, you get to keep it under Obamacare.

Obamacare expanded Medicaid, an unsustainable health entitlement program in which 40 percent of physicians, on average, do not even agree to see Medicaid patients.

While the President promised that Obamacare would bring down premiums by $2,500, premiums have actually gone up by an average of 41 percent in the individual market due to the law's mandates.

27 members of the Finance Committee...wrote to Marilyn Tavenner...to say, 'Whoa. Do not change the Medicare D program.'

Should we not reduce or eliminate the agency's role in this area and keep regulations and politics where it belongs, that is, with the Federal Election Commission?

I think only one person was fired. Everybody else retired without any sanctions, and that was voluntarily.

Wisely, the Commission did not call for federal legislation to implement their recommendations.

I oppose this legislation and intend to vote no. The states are perfectly capable of developing disaster contingency plans without federal compulsion or assistance.

Their time and resources should be dedicated to serving our voting population, not to filling out reports for the Department of Justice.