It is kind of like Lucy with the football and Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. There is always a string on the piece of cheese, and they say, Come on, mouse, get the cheese. Then they reel the string in. And they have been doing…

You know, Dr. Burgess, what you have communicated here, aside from being a doctor--we always put doctors sort of in a special category and maybe a little bit of an elevated platform. But what you have communicated is just the heart of a…

the rocket motor, the solid rocket technology, these are places where the priority needs to be, the thing that--what government can provide for the national defense. It's not State governments. This is something that should be fundamental…

And gentlemen, both of you have made a very significant point. You're saying 1 percent of that stimulus bill--there wasn't a stimulus bill, of course. It didn't work, and stimulus bills don't work very well anyway. But 1 percent of that…

Every great leader in history has had this in common: that at some point, by faith, hope, and love, they have hung tenaciously to some great enterprise in spite of the apparent hopelessness of that cause. The pilgrims on the beach…

Good afternoon. Once again, we find ourselves here on the floor of the U.S. Congress and the subject before us, in spite of various events that have been of great interest to people yesterday-- I'm thinking of the election of…

The way you're approaching this seems to be a little bit more sane in some ways in that you're saying, look, we're going to define our problem precisely, and we're going to tailor a solution to try to improve what we've got in order to try…

And with this bill that is being proposed, the insurance company can second-guess the doctor, and if there is a bad result, they can't be sued. That is one more strike why people don't like this bill.

He says it's the mother of all unfunded mandates. That says that trillion may be a pretty conservative number.

What you are saying is you are going to take $500 billion out of Medicare. Now, is this a Republican that is going to raid Medicare?

So if it moves, tax it. If it doesn't move, tax it anyway. It might be dead. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, gentlemen, for joining me. ____________________

Reclaiming my time, gentlemen, what you have been outlining here today is, I think, what the American public is eager for. They are eager for people to define specifically what a problem is, and to outline a solution that makes common…