Bill Cassidy

On the other hand, I think we have seen with some things like the exchanges in the Affordable Care Act just putting a date certain doesn't mean that it is going to smoothly happen.

There is nothing like a deadline to sharpen a man's mind.

You are absolutely correct that a lot of the expansion of the program that happened without proper oversight was during prior Administrations.

This notion of this service or these phones being called an Obama phone, what do you think is the rationale behind it?

Next, my gosh, don't we all still have a heartbreak for the issue of mental illness in our Nation?

Can you provide us follow-up or some guarantee that the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness receiving $36 million a year in some way is no longer doing this?

Our governor has not yet indicated that he is going to accept the Medicaid expansion.

Isn't that something? That somebody in another country, because as Mr. Cicio says, it is going to be manufactured someplace, the question is where.

So the point of principle that this bill is about creating transparency for the economic effect of EPA regulations...

If you are an oncologist, you not only want talk about the potential upside but also the potential downside.

This was a draft that was going to incredibly impact the economics of certain industries.

A little transparency so that if someone loses their job because of the regulation, they actually understand what thought process went into it.

I don't see the common sense in the greater the regulatory burden, the more prosperity we have.

This bill is not about that. It is about transparency so that there could be an economic effect.

I commend Rep. Bill Cassidy for his Energy Consumers Relief Act, which is a commonsense solution that bolsters EPA transparency and puts American consumers first.

The bill is actually about transparency.

It is now more important than ever to weigh the consequences of EPA's actions; the U.S. is on a pathway to unprecedented energy self-sufficiency.

If we do nothing, what, by 2035 or thereabouts Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and interest on the debt will consume 100 percent of Federal tax revenue?

If rate shock is a crock, why does Massachusetts... have the highest small business premiums in the Nation?

Does that make sense? I mean if we are going to include economic consequences, and what you are doing now does not do so, then clearly you need new model.

I will point out that also there is a CBO report that shows those who are most vulnerable are low-wage workers.

The Federal Reserve recently had a report from all their districts, employers in several districts citing the unknown effects of the Affordable Care Act is reasons for planned layoffs and reluctance to hire more staff.

But there is actually a decrease in full-time. There is decrease by 212,000 in full-time jobs in the last Bureau of Labor Statis---Labor whatever.

Only one out of seven of these things demanded by the Affordable Care Act, which passed in 2010, has been fully implemented.

It calls into question the wisdom of your management.