"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."
"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 resource..."
"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 allegatio..."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I am going to kind of go off topic, and I apologize kind of."
"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."
"people lost their lives in my State and continue to do so."
"Can you talk about that a little?"
"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."
"How are we enforcing that? Because I will tell you that access is still a giant issue in my state and so many others."
"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."
"I actually think in addition to the blocking and misunderstanding that we have seen two principles in HIPAA be determined."