Clearly in an ideal world, we would want to make our own engines and have control of that piece of the industrial base.
I do not understand, Madam Chairman, why Medicare does not say, any hospital or provider that does not publish their data by July 1, 2014, w...
Medicare ought to say, if you do not have Electronic Medical Records that are interoperable by, you know, July 1, 2014, we do not pay you an...
I am saddened that our veterans have been forced to wait for the healthcare they need and deserve, so until the VA can solve this problem I,...
You have got to be the guy that says no, and it is not--and I think that is an important--the President has to be the one that enforces budg...
I am not taking the job to be popular, Senator.
Everybody talks about sequester and yet nobody does anything about it.
We do not have the luxury of saying, 'oh, well, we will just add to the budget,' unless we are able to do something about sequestration.
If we do not accept your recommendation, then that is $2.1 billion a year, $30 billion over 5 years that has to come from somewhere else.
It is entirely self-imposed, and we act like everybody around this committee, both parties, talks about how terrible it is.
We have struggled with the issue of money and politics, always seeking to find the right balance.