John Dingell

We are going to try, I think you can sense from the committee and its questions to proceed towards a legislative solution, and it may very well be that we have to do so, and I think we are determined to do so.

Would you please submit to us the authority that you require?

Would you please submit to us what authorities you need so that we can see to it that it is done?

I would ask that they be inserted in the record and the response that will be received by the committee.

The Republicans in this House passed H.R. 910, the Upton-Inhofe bill. That would have barred EPA from reducing dangerous carbon pollution.

It is not the government's fault if a utility decides it is cheaper to use natural gas than coal.

They voted 47 times to block action on climate change.

We don't need more nuclear weapons. We need fewer nuclear weapons.

You can't build more nuclear weapons and cut Medicaid and cut Pell Grants and cut Medicare at the same time.

The Defense budget should just be what enhances our security.

I have constantly watched the development of our technical, scientific, and engineering people.

As any good physician will tell you, we need to cure the underlying problem, not to just treat the symptoms.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I commend my colleagues on the Republican side for their desire to keep Medicare fiscally solvent to address the SGR problem.

Does anybody at the table have any reason to believe that the storage of the remaining inventory of Primatene Mist is creating an unsafe product?

Now Doctor, I believe that on March 23, 2010, the President signed the Affordable Care Act into law.

I have a feeling that we are like the surgeon who conducted a superb operation in which the patient died.

Our goal should be to enact a permanent repeal to the existing flawed physician payment system this year.

Dr. Patel, I think we both agree that CMS must do more to reform physician payment systems.

Now how does--how is it that this program is going to benefit us in terms of addressing cost increases and the rate of increase of costs?

I never had any trouble getting anybody in here. I have watched my Republican colleagues waiving subpoenas and throwing them around here like confetti, and they don't get anything done.

I commend you for this hearing. I commend the panel. This is one of the best presentations and one of the best hearings I have heard for a while.

Do you believe that the medical profession will support that?

Does that offer promise for the future in addressing these miserable problems we have----

Is this remaining inventory being stored under safe and proper conditions?