I appreciate the opportunity to be here today and to look a little more closely at this issue.

Are you telling me that the primary care physicians, you have an adequate standard for determining proper staffing levels?

There must have been some lost information. Again, December 20 of 2011--actually, it is a little over a year, I guess, a nurse practitioner for over two years or not a doctor since December of 2011 still has no--in a clinic in Liberal…

I think I would be quite foolish to anticipate that if you could not get it done in 11 years, 12 years, that three more years is going to make that happen.

We just need to make sure that we have really good commercial diplomacy, really good trade agreements in effect, and that we are very forward thinking in that respect.

this is an issue of competence, the failure to either know the answer or refuse to answer them.

It is about 700,000 constituents that want an answer.

The Obama jobs deficit is a 13 million dollar--13 million job failure that they failed.

I think the extended unemployment insurance benefits artificially pushed up the unemployment rate.

I think 90-some percent, maybe 99 percent of it includes tax increases, not fee increases.

It ensures the right of conscience for everyone in the military to express their deeply held religious or moral beliefs regarding homosexual behavior.