Bill Cassidy

Right now, it is the fourth worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, moving on way up to the third.

So, the modernization process, are you just going to kind of okay, we have to tolerate that until we replace, or are you attempting to reconcile that?

Again, they will be required to publish their APIs as part of the RFP?

I have also understood that under your current VistA platform that one of the problems is that each VISN has done a customization of the VistA program for their VISN.

Will this effectively speed up the adjudication of claims? We have our doubts.

I have not yet heard an objection that actually sounds like it is firm.

No, that is wrong, and that is where I refer to--I can give it to you if you wish--552(a)(B) of Title V, and I will read from here, 'except pursuant to a written request or with a prior written consent of the individual to whom the record…

Now, you define unprecedented, which is somewhat pejorative, so what do you base upon--it is unprecedented, right, in the sense that before, we have had to wait for somebody to send it to us----

I am interested in the WINGMAN Act, which I gather you all oppose.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I've seen the statistics. The statistics show that medical bankruptcies have not declined.

But they are left with that hanging over them, and although the ACA was supposed to eliminate medical bankruptcy, I gather it is actually a worse problem now.

But I gather that the state said, listen, based upon our data there is no reason to have a marine reserve or restricted fishing.

I can see it being consultation and collaboration, but ultimately if you say so, it happens as regards much for adding the state as an entity with which to deal should be minimized.

It is vitally important that we retain access to all public waters.

I have a sense that BOEM decided what they wanted and they worked backwards to find rationale.

Does a small vocal minority override that overwhelming other wide support?

When we see market share it actually releases tons more greenhouse gases. That is not hyperbole; that is literal.

It is the definition of penny-wise and pound-foolish.

If you've got a condition affecting 20 percent... Is it excusable that we're not screening?

It is unfair to the child, and it is a disaster for this country in a global world to lose those resources.

The urgent need to find a bipartisan way to get this done.

If we don't address this problem, I think we'll see a tremendous surge in violence, a tremendous surge in incarceration.

That's not a reading gap. That is an achievement gap.

How difficult would it be to screen children at first grade for the presence of dyslexia?