"The REINS Act may not be tailored to the problems that it is supposed to address."
"Why isn't somebody from the Administration here?"
"Why don't we have a hearing on the bill first?"
"The majority of the Congress already passed the bill, and the President signed it into law."
"It sounds like a backdoor way of legislating again, when they are charged with actually just making the rules to implement a bill already signed into law."
"the individual, whoever is objecting to the rule, can sue away. Who pays for that?"
"I would like to just add for your consideration my recommendations that we review, in connection with health care, the antitrust exemption that health insurance companies enjoy, the McCarran-Ferguson ..."
"I hope that we can get into the issue of the shortage of doctors in rural areas, which is critical and which many of us view would be increased by a cap on medical liability, this $250,000 cap."
"I think it is going to go down historically as one of the great advances in health care."
"The bill that was just repealed yesterday provided for millions of more people getting health care because we raised the ceiling on Medicaid."
"I haven't found one yet that doesn't want that provision in the bill."
"I think you should remain Chairman in the next Congress as well. So ordered."