Elizabeth Warren

You have not given us a single principled reason for this change.

Last year, CMS also supported adding the device information to claims.

Adding device identifiers to claim forms has bipartisan support in Congress. Senator Grassley and I have been pushing this now for years, and I'll be blunt, we're going to keep pushing on this.

The device identifiers on the claim form would reduce Medicare costs by identifying poorly performing devices more quickly and protect beneficiaries from unnecessary cost.

Does the HHS Inspector General support adding such a line to the claim form?

It seems that figuring out how to use safer devices and sorting out the safer devices from the less safe devices could save Medicare a lot of money and save consumers a lot of money and a lot of pain.

I'm very glad to hear this, that we're working on ways to address the shortcomings in the current system.

Then a recent report showed that medical error, including patient misidentification, was the third leading cause of death in the United States.

A 2012 survey found that 1 in 5 physicians encountered mismatched information that led to illness or injury at least once during the preceding year.

My concern is that you were the head of the FHA. It was your responsibility to see to it that standards were set so that these banks did not file false claims, and then as soon as you leave the FHA, you go to a business whose job it is to…

This is the classic revolving door. In fact, it is worse than the classic. It is the revolving door at its worst, and the American people cannot have confidence in our Government so long as the revolving door is spinning like this.

I would just like to ask. I know I am out of time. I would like to ask you to provide the Committee with a list of the clients that your company advised on FHA-related penalties and settlements during the time that you were heading up the…

The President of the United States is pouring even more gasoline on that fire, attacking our free press as a, quote, 'enemy of the people.'

Free speech is not about violence. It is not about silence.

Free speech means more speech.

Free speech doesn't mean the speaker is entitled to an audience.

I think it's dangerous to suppress speech.

I think that spouting fake science is extremely corrosive to public policy and should be called out in public at every possible opportunity.

I really do not, because they deserve--see, they are people, they are American people.

I do not think most Americans know that this kind of discriminatory treatment is perfectly legal.

It is 2017. Can you explain why wages this low are not illegal?

I think it is right. So I am glad you are holding this hearing today.

The SEC is required to follow the law. And if you believe in the American constitutional system, you should demand that the SEC stop this lawless behavior.

You know, the SEC was told to write these rules 7 years ago. They are central to the SEC's mission of investor protection.

Do you believe you have an obligation to complete these unfinished congressional mandates from 2010 before any other discretionary rules or projects?