Rand Paul

Reducing the use of EDs for nonurgent health problems may generate much lower cost savings to the health care system than is commonly assumed.

When you use force to transfer money from those who work to those who don't, that is not charity, that is redistribution of wealth.

I would first like to thank Chairman Sanders, Senator Paul, and members of the subcommittee for inviting me to come and give testimony

Our plan ought to appeal to you as the free clinics would operate with no tax dollars at all. This is limited government.

Planned Parenthood is not responsive to the taxpayer or to the government and we give them money.

I know advocates of increased welfare mean well, but in the end good intentions must also be paired with fiscal responsibility.

Private enterprise is always more efficient than government, just as a matter of fact.

Obamacare expands entitlements at a time when entitlements are already stretched beyond solvency.

I don't see you as a partisan, you are trying very hard not to be a partisan, but Planned Parenthood is a partisan, politically and otherwise.

I do agree, as a physician I have seen it first hand, that ER visits are much more expensive than primary care visits.

Our job should not be to expand wasteful government programs but to get government out of the way of true charity.

I would like to have that information and if the GAO could send that to me.

Charity encourages help in times of need, but does not encourage the perception of lifelong entitlement.

I see no reason whatsoever, if you are wanting 68 percent increase in your budget, that you can't own up, stand up and tell us, 'Yes, we are doing the same thing Planned Parenthood does.'

I've yet to meet a thinking adult who would choose the Federal Government.

This environmental extremism has taken over education and public debate.

It would at least give the people some say and there would be some check and balance.

I think the REINS Act is what we need. It is what the American people expect.

People want you off their land. And that is why we have to have checks and balances. We feel like it is out of control.

I think trusting this President to look back at regulations is sort of like trusting the fox to guard the henhouse.

Pollution is much better than it has ever been. Air quality is much better than it has ever been.

The system is so horribly broken.

I think our Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave to think that we are passing rules that would cost $100 million and the people's representatives have no say in that.

I am a little concerned about really saying, well, everything is fine and I can trust you to go ahead and get rid of some of these bad regulations.

It is a bipartisan problem.