Jeff Van Drew: “I would like to thank Chairman Peterson and Ranking Member Conaway for this opportunity.”

If you hurt these hospitals some will close, some people will have to utilize emergency rooms even more. … This is political stupidity; it’s political suicide.

The American people deserve full transparency.

And we owe it to our constituents, and we owe it to them to come up with a solution.

But — there’s a big but with that — if we’re not ready, then we need to, for a year or a year and a half, renew the subsidy.