The Act strengthens Medicare's future, improves benefits for senior citizens and people with disabilities, and saves money for taxpayers.

Fixing the donut hole created by the Republican plan was a key improvement of the Act.

John Boehner's proposal has been analyzed. It would add only three million people to the insured.

Driving down costs does not mean necessarily that expenditures will not go up.

Clearly, any tax reform, which was true in 1986, will have to be bipartisan, it will have to be bicameral, and also it will require leadership from the executive, which I am sure will be forthcoming.

Clearly, there is a need for tax reform.

Next to me, Mr. Rangel was chairing the committee, introduced legislation to try to move ahead this issue of tax reform.

These provisions have helped to safeguard investments held by U.S. citizens in dozens of foreign countries and protect U.S. investors from expropriation without compensation.

What I think we really need is more of these treaties.

the problem is you don't like a mandate, you don't like a public plan, but you have no plan.

I think what you need to do if you don't like the mandate and you don't like the public plan is to come forth with a very specific proposal that would assure that there would no longer be 50 million uninsured in this country.

I really don't know that, in view of the pressing conditions, it really makes much sense... to go after Mr. Uhalde on this issue of saved jobs.