Susan Collins

That is so important because in the vast majority of these cases, once the money has been wired, it is gone forever, and it is very difficult to trace.

It is great to have you as a member of the Committee.

A dollar more than 400 percent, you lose your assistance with premiums. And that is another real problem with the law that is creating wage loss.

We want to see everyone have access to affordable health insurance.

I hope we can get away from trying to make this a partisan debate.

I think we have to acknowledge up front that we have a real problem with the individual market.

We have a problem where we are seeing nationwide average premium increases of 25 percent.

What has been lost in this debate is regardless of who was elected President, we were going to have to do major repairs on the Affordable Care Act.

Alzheimer's has become our Nation's most expensive disease. It costs society $263 billion a year; $150 of that comes from Medicare and Medicaid.

For us to say that everything is going well with Obamacare is just not accurate, and that's why I feel that we do need to fix the flaws of what is a well-intentioned but deeply problematic law.

I have been baffled over the years by what CMS reimburses for and what it fails to reimburse for.

I think most people reject that idea. As you said, we don't want to pull the rug out from under people who are relying on the insurance that has been provided through the ACA.

It creates great anxiety for consumers, and insurers would be unable to price their policies if they don't know what the rules are going to be.

Many of us have expressed concern about what would happen to the millions of Americans who are in the individual market of the ACA on the exchanges.

I am a strong supporter of apprenticeship education, and I think we can do more to prepare young people for many of the unfilled, high-skill jobs that industry needs.

There's nothing worse than a student being saddled with educational debt and not earning the credential or the degree that would enable that student to pay off that debt.

Would you commit to taking a look at the funding of the department to see if we could do a better job of moving toward fulfillment of that promise?

The single most important action that the Federal Government could take would be to fulfill the promise of the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to fund 40 percent of the additional cost of educating a special needs child.

I have no doubt that you care deeply about the education of all children.

If confirmed, would you make a priority to provide an assessment to Congress of whether or not Iran is using its civilian air fleet for such purposes?

The Department of Defense is subjected to 100,000 attempted cyber attacks each day.

I believe that the recent focus on the cyber intrusions in the campaign has greatly increased the public's awareness of this problem.

We have talked a lot about the Russians' attempt to mold public opinion for our campaign

The IC's conclusion that the Russians sought to assist President-elect Trump's campaign depend upon an assessment... that the Russians covertly collected information from primarily Democratic sources.

I do think that it's important that we understand more fully the extent of Russian intrusions into the electoral process to try to shape public opinion.