John B. Breaux: “I suggest to the distinguished ranking member, what we need around here is a little law and order, and perhaps we could…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you the panel members.

My opinion is that in order to ever reach an agreement between the two parties, Congress is going to have to combine the best of what government can do with the best of what the private sector can do and put the two together.

it is interesting that the authors, the Senators who oppose the amendment, say the bill is going to create 660,000 jobs. If it is going to create 660,000 jobs, there is no problem. The people would be able to bring the money back and pay 5…

We want to keep Medicare. I think we want to improve the delivery system.