Roy Blunt

If there are legislative obstacles to that kind of model, I believe I would be willing and others would be willing to help you remove some of those obstacles.

I'm on the intel committee. We've reported a bill out that would do some things--information-sharing, some liability protections, other things that I think are headed in the right direction.

I am pleased to call up this amendment. This amendment extends what would now be a sunset on the Department of Defense annual report on the military power of Iran and adds another 10 years to that annual reporting date. Currently, the law…

2017 is the end of the program?

Seems like there is a certain running for the hills here.

Designed in the scoring of the Affordable Care Act not to cost money.

We will see what the Court says.

If there are things that need to be said in report language or moved around in the budget, let's talk about that and be sure we get on that track where this happens.

The theory being, by then, insurance companies should have figured out how to set up the structure and the marketplace and profile.

The $150 per encounter cost is obviously a whole lot less than many of the alternatives, particularly the emergency room as an alternative.

I hope we can find common ground, so that we can really prioritize the concerns that we share with you.

This is another area where the Congress has spoken.

We actually are 3 minutes over.

What is the Department doing to better utilize the non-profit community's special role, capabilities, and skill sets?

Thank you, Chairman. On the proposal on the multiyear bill that Senator Reed, Senator Collins, all of us want to see us get to a multiyear bill.

And my other question, Mr. Secretary, last year the spending bill suspended for 1 year the restart provisions in the 2011 rule on hours of service.

Their bill, S. 961, the Data Security Act of 2015, sets a national data security standard that recognizes those who already have one under the GLBA.

I think we do them a great disservice. I think we do taxpayers a great disservice.

It's a major problem like the ratings will be a major problem if somehow your school is suddenly rated by some matrix of not filling out the form

I hope we can work together to find common ground of prioritizing, even in the early stages of marking up the budget, the kinds of things you believe and we agree would have the most impact on making education work better for families and…

Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. To the surprise of many people, including me, it was unanimously reported, which makes me begin to wonder just how much Iran nuclear…

I think a lot of these ratings are going to have those same kinds of problems.

I actually offered an amendment during our budget resolution markup to put this into action.

To be clear, you zeroed out the payments in the Federal property program and moved it to the facilities management program.

Mr. Secretary, thank you and your staff for your time today. And we look forward to working with you.