"I don't want to be helping to finance those plants or those facilities going overseas through import/export bank."
"I find the idea of a clean energy bank very intriguing, very appealing to really look at how we can boldly move forward on all fronts because there's so many opportunities."
"We are honored to be a member of this committee, as a new member who has tremendous interest, coming from my home State of Michigan, in energy."
"It's not enough just to have someone that you trust. We have to have specific criteria as to what is going to be happening. Will there be accountability, transparency? We can't even get answers."
"Well it's not enough just to have someone that you trust we have to have specific criteria as to what is going to be happening. Will there be accountability and transparency? We can't even get answers..."
"There is a really excellent partnership between Johns Hopkins and the Michigan Hospital Association called Keystone Initiative."
"I would hope that as we talk about Medicare and Medicaid that we will talk about it also in the larger context of healthcare reform since it is all connected."
"I would just add my voice on health information technology for a moment."
"They have saved over a course of a few years now, about 1,500 lives and $165 million in health care costs."
"inaction is not going to help."
"the reality is our country, our Government should have acted sooner on the issues that are in front of us."