Bill Cassidy

It seems like there should be $3 billion going for the BRAIN initiative.

The report will be available next December, do you mean 2015 or 2016 in terms of rebalancing how you are spending priorities?

Are we going to wait--I guess my question is we have this balloon note on Alzheimer's, 200 billion climbing, are we going to wait until we figure out a vaccine for HIV/AIDS before we begin shifting to the new battle?

There seems to be just a total out of whack in terms of the burden on society, death, DALYs, cost of Medicare/Medicaid.

I am a doctor. I know so much of what you all have done.

It seems like we should be throwing everything we have at understanding that basic sort of science regarding that.

We need to fund some things we never have before, because otherwise we will never to the point where we are successful.

Major mental illness is so drastically under addressed in our society.

I have done some back of the envelope figuring, we have been looking at this for a while.

For that young girl who is pregnant, can she show up and, by golly, she is going to have a place to stay?

We have to meet the immediate need, but then if we are going to end homelessness, we then have to figure out what is causing it.

I do not mean to interrupt, but I am interested--I am gathering that there is not a kind of prevalence--set of prevalence data as to the epidemiology, this percent would be mentally ill.

We need a more sophisticated, yes, we need to have that housing I suppose, absolutely we need to have a way to prevent, and then we need an exit strategy for those who are affected.

Thank you. I enjoyed each of your testimonies. Thank you. Ms. Lauper, I applaud you.

There is an immediate need.

To establish that your home is your primary residence--I gather the default is that it is not your primary residence.

We are afraid that that will chill economic development.

I think Don Young had some hearings on this a few years ago.

That just like defies logic.

I'm from Louisiana, so obviously I guess we're a little interested in flood insurance.

It's interesting. It doesn't really designate. It just says you have to put up $250.

We're complying shipping jobs overseas, and we're not really complying, because carbon is a global emittent.

3 percent is pretty big in terms of absolute numbers.

I wish to commend my fellow freshman, Senator Perdue, for a great maiden speech. I like particularly his emphasis upon growing our gross domestic product, growing our economy, and making it stronger. It echoes what Senator Enzi just said…

The middle class is getting hosed by premiums, which have increased dramatically, and we are just going to leave the middle class behind when it comes to affordable health insurance.