Bill Cassidy

So the legislation we have proposed would authorize DOE to lease up to 200 million barrels of storage capacity.

One, we cannot get natural gas from where it is produced up to New England.

I think there has been resistance from hospital systems regarding price transparency.

So if you are saying through the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program or through Medicare, mandating price transparency for the beneficiaries of those programs?

What on the Federal level could be done to aid the issue of price transparency, if you will?

When you align the incentives of the patient and the physician, both in terms of her health, as well as the financial incentives, is when you get the best outcomes.

We would love to have all of you onboard as well.

I will just make that statement. If we are going to find the revenue someplace, it does seem that we need to look at what is an equitable distribution and how do we truly honor people.

The great Trump economy is fantastic, huh?

The facts are what matters. Truth is what matters, not your advocacy point.

I think there have been structural problems that have led to this over decades, and I sense there is still some inertia there.

In Delaware we have something we call the Delaware way. It revolves around the letter 'C.' Communicate, compromise, collaborate, and civility in order to get to a fifth 'C,' consensus.

If you are going to get anything done, you have to have bipartisan support.

It is my experience that unless you empower that IPO person, she or he will continue to be ineffective.

They wanted it to be the single point of authority and not a facilitator who I tend to think of as lacking authority.

This is not within the highest reaches at least in the VA regarding responsibility.

I thank the Chair for acknowledging the Blue Water issue at the outset and look forward to its resolution.

Now, when you say that, though, you still have to have value.

So, Ms. Giunto, one thing I've always stressed--it can't just be the physician-patient relationship as it was with Marcus Welby, but there has to be an alignment of both the financial interest and the healthcare interest of the two…

We have been working with Senators Bennet, Young, Grassley, Carper, and McCaskill to do a price transparency working group.

I always think if you give the patient the power, including the power of knowledge and price, it makes a huge difference.

Let me just say, I have seen that prosperity. A prosperity that has filtered out to the working family who over the last eight years really suffered but now, because of high-paying energy jobs, actually has a better life, a better future.

LNG and increased natural gas production is good for the economy, good to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and good for international trade.

I would just suggest that we begin to focus more upon obesity, which seems to be an outlier in terms of lack of funding relative to societal cost.

Obesity is implicated in Alzheimer's, implicated in heart disease, implicated in cancer.