"Everybody ought to have a say. The doctors ought to have a say. Their say is going to be very important."
"I want to make it clear that I agree with my colleague, Mr. Whitfield, that we should do something to provide clarity on how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions."
"I am afraid that this bill will take a long established and reasonable effective regulatory process, turn it upside down, to the great detriment to all of those in the industry."
"I have always believed that we should build a consensus to create support for moving legislation forward."
"Sometimes history and experience have something to teach us."
"It is my fear that this bill is one of such proposals that is going to cause us a lot of future difficulties."
"We have to re-appreciate that, that when there wasn't any daylight--any daylight between any of us in the Congress, bicameral, bipartisan, and in the executive branch, that that is a powerful message ..."
"The ESA could likely not garner a simple majority vote in today's Congress."
"In my entire career, I have fought to secure the affordable, quality health care our citizens deserve and need."
"So we can call this a fee as opposed to a tax. Is that right?"
"This fee will lower insurance premiums in the individual market because insurers will not have to factor in the costs of disproportionate high costs of enrollment of high-risk patients."
"the hard and simple fact of the matter is that the health care costs in this country are running away from us and will destitute the Nation."