G. K. Butterfield: “The rising cost of health care threatens our Nation's economy and puts more and more families at financial risk.”

Section 2 has been very effective down through the years, and those of you who have been involved in litigation, you know what I mean.

Where we diverge is how to preserve the program for those in actual need without regulatory loopholes and fuzzy interpretations of the law, both of which exploit the very intent of the program.

I say to the gentleman that I am prepared to close. Mr. Davis is my friend, and I want the world to know that. I reserve the balance of my time.

I had spent thirty years in a courtroom before coming to Congress, and, you know, in a courtroom, the rules are so much different than the rules for ethics for Members of Congress.