John Dingell

Placing cost-sharing requirements on this population is going to have to be done very carefully or it will have an appalling negative impact on their health and financial security.

Medicare is a promise to our senior citizens, and we need to keep our word to them.

President Obama got it exactly right in his State of the Union address when he said that if Congress did not act, he would.

This committee, and the Republican-controlled House, has become one of the last remaining refuges of the flat-Earth society.

Climate change is the biggest energy challenge we face. There is no debate about the science.

I happen to think, and will you confirm or deny this, that that is the direction we are going to have to go because one of the things about our system is it is broken because we are paying for work done and not for results achieved?

Successive iterations of the 1988 Satellite Home Viewer Act, SHVA, were enacted by Congress in order to extend the principle of localism to the greatest degree possible to unserved viewers.

My old daddy used to say to me, son, he would say, it ain't how long you took, but how well you did and how hard you tried.

To fail to do this is probably going to project the committee into one of the doggonest donnybrooks in recent history.

I have the impression that our system is broken because we are paying for work done and not for accomplishments

I think we would be well served to confine our efforts here to a clean reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act.

I commend you for holding this hearing. It is a fine example of good bipartisan, bicameral progress.

I heard a great deal of comment relative to this point today. And it is my feeling we should use these efforts as building blocks.

I think that we can no longer kick the can down the road and that now is the time for the Congress to act.

I believe this demonstrates the urgent need for the Congress to act.

I believe the existing fee-for-service system turns a blind eye to quality and efficiency.

Yes, it did, medically.

We must stop questioning whether the FDA needs new authority.

I would urge us to move forward on legislation, effective legislation.

Since the great events in Michigan, where a bunch of my constituents and others were killed, we have seen that the compounders have continued their same merry practices of disregarding the law.

We have a responsibility to see to it that we clarify that as a part of our oversight responsibilities.

Simple fact of the matter is people are dying, people are being made sick.

We acutely need greater clarity on oversight structures for large-scale compounding.

Does FDA have the authority to require all compounding pharmacies to register with the agency?

Let's put these rascals in the compounding industry into a place where they have law to obey.