So in a less than a year, nearly 20,000 low-income people in Arkansas, sir, have lost their healthcare because of a work requirement that your agency approved.

I would imagine that cutting a program by $1.4 trillion doesn't actually make the program, strengthen the integrity of the program or make it easier for people to gain access to insurance.

Healthier people working does not mean that work requirements make people healthier. I assume you understand that?

So moving on, sir, do you believe that healthcare is a right for all Americans in this country?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Except the data that you are looking at seems to indicate that there are tens of thousands of people that are losing healthcare.

It is the perspective of at least this Member of Congress, and I think other colleagues of mine, that Medicaid work requirements are against the Social Security--the very statute that incorporates Medicaid, Section 115 of the Social…

Can you point me to one study that says that work requirements make people healthier? One?

I want to thank the witnesses for appearing today and to the committee for holding this important hearing.

I am particularly interested in the development of offshore wind resources. We know offshore wind holds an immense opportunity for abundant renewable energy.

How do we ensure that our workforce training and development efforts in this emerging sector are inclusive, and intentionally target populations that most need and most stand to gain from access to these new good-paying jobs?

if you judge the strength of the law by the power of its remedy and you have got remedies in place but the State just chooses not to enforce it, is there really any regulation to begin with?