Richard Burr

I think the Chairman's intent was to say that they are not all paid for by their insurance company where we have expanded it greatly in the VA.

The truth is that the VA is a medical home and not everybody that prescribes in the private sector is necessarily that patient's medical home.

We put this management plan into effect in 2009 and we had an upward spike.

My observation would be opiates are prescribed a lot of times because that is what the patient came in and asked for.

What do you see as the biggest impediment for VA making this transition?

Are you confident that we have the sufficient focus on Phoenix for this Committee and for the VA to understand what, if anything, went wrong?

I rise to thank the great people at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for their hard work in honoring our Nation's military and veterans' families. This Memorial Day Weekend, the 55th Let Freedom Race Celebration at CMS will bring together more…

If we're not focused on outcome, then we've made a huge mistake.

We're changing and we're making children's hospitals compete, which does not assure us of the investment in pediatricians.

Thank you for being here and thank you for the job that is done at HRSA within HHS.

Just this week, the bipartisan Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Reauthorization Act was signed into law, a signal from Congress that this program is working well.

Let me just say, Mr. Chairman, it concerns me that we might look at it in the future, because we either follow the statute that is in the law, which I think is very clear, or we do not, and I am not sure the IRS statute is open for…

I do know that many of us are going to be looking at the payment that's made on the plus side to see if, in fact, we are paying CGI for their individuals to fix a Web site that they were contracted to produce for the Federal Government.

The moral of this story is the more we share up front, which we haven't on the Affordable Care Act, the more informed all members are.

I wish to pay tribute to Richard Francis Cline, a member of ``The Greatest Generation.'' Mr. Cline, who passed away last September at the age of 89, will be honored today by interment at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Cline was a…

I thank the distinguished chairman for this important clarification and for his hard work in developing this important legislation.

I have a question for my friend from Iowa, the chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, in May 2013 issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to the Child Care and…

I do concur. I urge those Members who might be the subject of us trying to work out some language on their amendments, if they have not spoken on them, they exercise the opportunity between 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock, while the caucuses are…

I thank my friend and colleague for withholding on that quorum call. We have made tremendous progress. Our joint staffs worked well into the night with Members who have amendments to this bill that they think improve the bill. We have…

We have had a very productive day on the child care and development block grant bill, and we have processed a number of amendments, some by voice, some with record votes. All Members have had the opportunity to come to the floor during the…

I would say, it is our intent probably right before the Ukraine briefing to hopefully be in a position to dispose of about two additional amendments.

I want to take this opportunity to say to my colleagues, we are now at a point where we would like to consider amendments. So if you have improvements to this bill, it is now after lunch. Before you take a nap, come down to the Senate…

I thank the Chair, and I thank my good friend and colleague from Maryland, Senator Mikulski. In the Senate, for those of us who have been around for a while, we understand how it works. I am not sure the media does justice to the American…

I have heard concerns from my constituents that the final rule may establish costly testing requirements that divert resources away from the most critical food safety activities.

We over prescribe grossly pharmaceuticals in the United States.