Bill Cassidy

Any comments on that? We're leaving $4 billion on the table. Can we get some of that money to the taxpayer?

I would again push that if HIV/AIDS, as you have mentioned, is substantially addressed... we should start shifting more aggressively resources from that which has been addressed to that which we are confronting.

States clearly have a role in decisions about whether and/or how to develop Federal energy resources off their shores.

If you are going to say listen, the states have the option to pull themselves out and we recognize they have an interest, and we are going to honor that they have an interest, et cetera, than in the case of the Gulf of Mexico, it is not as…

I am told that recently you stated that states in the Atlantic will have a chance to pull themselves out of the running for possible Federal approval of offshore drilling.

Our endpoint is not preservation of VA. Our endpoint is preservation of the veteran, and so we need to look for that best model.

Clearly, patient access to care is important.

They are disappointed by the budget's proposed version of critically needed and currently dedicated funding for coastal Louisiana in the Mississippi River delta.

The Obama Administration's goal to take this away reminds me of a quote from Joseph Heller, 'Mankind is resilient. The atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.'

Does President Obama hate Louisiana?

I am incredibly, I cannot put enough hyperbole in front of this, opposed to the Department's budget proposal to deprive the Gulf Coast states of the revenue promised under the Gulf of Mexico Security Act.

Now I look at that $5.7 billion as basically forcing manufacturers overseas for anything that is energy intensive.

It does seem if you raise the cost of that energy production by these measures ultimately you increase the input and change the model so companies are more likely to move overseas.

Mr. Cohen, Senator Warren just characterized this as a broken system, and yet you point out that unions are winning an increasing percentage of the elections.

Some of it's stable. I just am wondering about Senator Murray's statement--and you seemed to concur--that the Affordable Care Act may have improved immunization rates.

I do think it's important for the record that for childhood immunization, the Affordable Care Act has really, not hurt, but it has certainly not augmented that which was previously there.

I am struck that some people are just born entrepreneurs.

The genius of the franchisee-franchisor relationship is that you can take someone who doesn't necessarily have the intuitions of an entrepreneur.

My gosh, Ken Bradford could be the only person who speaks today.

Again, you find some improvement in mathematics, but otherwise, these highly motivated kids with great verbal skills are still little able to impact kids who are otherwise anchored down by a terrible family life or a less advantageous…

Now, with teachers, what are the top two variables?

So you must have regression analysis within that. Can you give me your top four, actually give me the top two.

Is there a second variable you would throw in there? Because that was not correlated with the teacher.

I'm not a teacher. Well, I am a teacher. I teach with a medical school, and so I have some experience.

Yes, I did. But it's not the teacher. It's not the principal. It's not the school. It's the parents' educational level?