12/05/2011
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"My principal objective is to ensure that consumers will be the primary beneficiaries of these reforms through lower prices and better health insurance coverage."
"This legislation should enjoy broad bipartisan support based on the fact that the House passed a similar bill during the 111th Congress with more than 400 votes."
"I consider this a very important hearing in view of the 41 attempts by the conservative Members of the House to repeal it ultimately unsuccessfully."
"Drug offenses alone account for two-thirds of the rise in the Federal inmate population and more than half the rise in State prisoners between 1985 and 2000."