"During my brief tenure as a member of Congress, I have seen how well intentioned legislation can have unintended consequences when applied to the real world."
"The mere allegation alone is damaging enough regardless of the substance?"
"Absolutely."
"You had absolutely no authority over the delivery or distribution of the grant money?"
"Upon receipt of the grant money, did you have any control over where it went?"
"But would it not be in the best interests of every American to have interstate sale of health insurance, over policies that can meet the demands of individual choice?"
"I don't think he built it around the private health market because I want to make sure we understand."
"How do I respond to my constituents who, back home, said, 'I was told I could keep my doctor but now my doctor won't keep me because of the reimbursement reductions that are being done in Medicare?'"
"What we are doing here is the same thing we have done to the Student Loan Program and the health--we have nationalized it, suppressed the rates, and now we are telling the American public that if you ..."
"One last thing. You indicate that the USPS finds itself in a predicament that is primarily the result of one flawed statute that enables the Congress of the United States to micromanage what should be..."
"If we had just let them pay--if we let the employees of the Postal Service pay what the Federal employees were paying."