Given that 3 years has gone by--and I apologize for interrupting you, but this--as a physician, I was a cabinet secretary for health, this is untenable.

It has taken us 3 years to get this administration to require the Human Services Department to repay these providers the millions of dollars that they are--but they are defunct.

These are both important industries to the economic benefit of citizens in New Mexico, but I can see that left alone, it could take too long to create an environment where competing for water resources means choosing.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I am going to kind of go off topic, and I apologize kind of.

Do you see advances or areas that Congress could be looking to, much like my colleague talked about, in investment strategies and incentive strategies?

Can you talk about that a little?

But given the situation in our State, our governor determined that all, 100 percent, of our behavioral health providers were engaged in billing practices that rose to the level of a credible allegation of fraud and so suspended payments to…

people lost their lives in my State and continue to do so.

Agriculture and the oil and gas sector are really important industries, certainly, in my state as well as for most of the Members on this Committee.

For the audience, it does not prevent that. It explicitly provides for that.

Where do you see the balance? And nobody I think on this committee is making any sort of statement that we should reduce privacy protections.

I actually think in addition to the blocking and misunderstanding that we have seen two principles in HIPAA be determined.

I have no doubt that we will continue in Congress, and localities and cities and states will continue the debate about gateway drugs.

The Affordable Care Act is the reason this Administration has said that it was okay to cancel 100 percent of all the behavioral health providers in my state.

How are we enforcing that? Because I will tell you that access is still a giant issue in my state and so many others.

HIPAA, I spent a lot of time dealing with HIPAA, so it wasn't--I won, because the CEO of the health care company refused to provide the patient information.

How do I do that, sir?

What do we do so that everybody sitting here today is clear that when there is a warning signal, no matter how small--and here, they weren't small. They were not small. They were huge.

I was right. I went down there and got it myself.

How many staff have been held accountable? How many retrainings have you had? How many water tests are you doing?

And as both sides try to tackle this problem, because our real issue here is to figure out how we prevent it from happening ever again and, secondly, what we can do about restoring faith to the--our constituents who don't believe either of…

this significant increase, I believe, will result in eligible low-income children being, quite frankly, kicked off the lunch program.

These kids can't help any of those certification or verification problems. They are not responsible for the waste and issues that you addressed.

You have an obligation, the both of you.

Can you commit today that you are going to work on that and make sure that we are getting the data that we need?