We have an obligation to figure out how much of these dangerous chemicals veterans and their families were exposed to and what impact these exposures might have had on their health.

Providing health care to veterans and their families would be one step toward meeting, I think, our moral obligation to those who we put at risk.

We urge this distinguished committee to adopt the language in H.R. 2735 on this issue, and authorize a change in the law.

I think we'll agree to disagree, based upon how I read the letter.

I believe that through this health care debate we have to be as concerned about expansion of coverage as we are about access to care.

I would encourage my colleagues--well, I found out more information in my one phone call to North Carolina than I think your report did.

Did your staff find specific cases where people had been denied access because of domestic violence?

If you want to have true reform then you've got to reform all aspects.

This bill would only help one group, foreign workers.

Everyone would pay more for health insurance because the mandated plan that one would purchase under the health exchange is so large that it would be very, very expensive.

Unfortunately, the bills in front of Congress right now, the House Democrats' bill, the two bills in the Senate, are anti-woman, anti-man, and anti-American.

I want to thank you and Senator Mikulski for chairing this hearing this morning.