John B. Breaux: “I cannot tell you how delighted and how nice it is to have the Committee outside of Washington, DC.”

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.

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

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.

I think it's hers to lose. I think it's the consensus among Democrats that I've talked to that she's clearly in the lead, is clearly the person that they have to beat.