Steve Scalise

We don't want somebody to feel like if they are coming to the government to work together in a partnership that that is not going to expose them to some other kind of liability.

Does the Assistant Administrator, Ms. McCarthy, have any involvement in these fee waivers?

The government hasn't really been good at picking winners and losers.

There are so many opportunities for us to become energy independent within 10 years.

We have had a number of hearings in this committee about the new technologies, what technology has done to increase the supply.

It turned out after the fact, unfortunately, after he took his life, that in his file he had actually authorized his parents to have access to information.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for having the hearing, and I especially want to thank those family members who have been impacted by mental illness for coming here and sharing your stories with us.

We need to change things, and sometimes you can't get change unless you change things.

How do we get some clarity in HIPAA to remove this gray area, if it is even in fact gray, that is stopping vital information from being shared with family members?

I will be submitting a series of questions for the record on behalf of my constituents, Pat and Debbie Milam, who tragically lost their son Mathew and experienced many obstacles within the mental health system.

Families across America are grieving and searching for answers about why America's mental health system has failed them and how it can be fixed.

It is a free phone to some people that is paid for by other people, and those other people that are paying for that service, when they see the fraud and abuse and the waste in this program, get incredibly angry.

This program is the kind of program that really angers, I know, a lot of my constituents.

Get us the list of the number of people that are in this Lifeline program that have free cell phones that actually pay out of their pocket to upgrade it.

I would hope when you are trying to think of what to do with the money that you are finally uncovering from waste, fraud, and abuse, you don't see it as some kind of honey pot that you can go and spend somewhere else.

I hope you are ready to help the millions of Americans that are about to be dealing with this train wreck

Has anyone been held accountable for the 53 deaths that occurred? Anyone?

You are failing in your mission.

I would like to get whatever law it is that you all are hiding behind that says you do not have the legal authority to investigate these pharmacies like Ameridose and NECC.

There is no reason for those jobs to be lost. We could have those jobs today.

President Obama can create more than 20,000 new jobs in America by approving the Keystone pipeline.

There is a cost to that, and I think those costs need to be brought up.

It seems like, pursue an agenda.

I know we have heard a lot about those BTOP grants that some states got through stimulus states like mine, Louisiana, that didn't get it yet have been moving forward on their own with building out an interoperable network because we can't…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for having the hearing and again for your leadership in getting this done in the first place, something that hadn't been done for years and years in Congress finally actually getting written into law.