Even with all of these issues being publicly reported or included in the reports by the IG, this Committee has yet to hold a single oversight hearing on the quality of care veterans are receiving at the VA facilities.

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

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…

Let me say to my good friend, as one who remembers August practices in the South--hottest time of the year, three practices a day--the first thing I would bargain out for all players is that I would have to get my ankles taped at 4:30 in…

Well, let me say to my good friend from Tennessee, I will quote the words of Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch, a former provost at Notre Dame, in an editorial he wrote in the Wall Street Journal just this week. He says: To call…

I just wanted to address one last thing; that is, the claim that this case was all about health care. The Senator from Tennessee has pointed out as well the options that we have today. But let me speak from a firsthand experience: a…

Let me say to my good friend, the Senator from Tennessee-- who not only was a walk-on track member at Vanderbilt, but was the president of the University of Tennessee, the Governor of Tennessee, the Secretary of Education, and now is a…

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

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.

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

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…