Mr. Chairman, thank you for this work. I want to thank our panelists for being here.

For these individuals, this technology will bring them, I think, greater independence and greater mobility.

We had 303 vehicular deaths last year in Nevada. More than half of them happened in the rural portions of the state.

There was no State that got hit harder...during the economic meltdown than the State of Nevada.

Will you encourage new applications for ILC charter?

I think there has been a real lack of leadership under the FDIC under previous leadership.

I do not know how much work has been done on the ILCs in the last few years.

once again, I think Washington, DC, has lost its mind. It is shameful that the minority party has engineered a government shutdown at the expense of our troops and their families, at the expense of our veterans, and at the expense of our…

The U.S. has a responsibility to investigate these issues and determine whether there is a link between their service and these diseases.

I do not know if it was out earlier than that, but we found out on Friday.

I want to thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your hard work and effort on that, but clearly the work is not over.

I think we have passed out of Committee, I think, in this session, 10 pieces of legislation, some of which have been mine and all of them have contained my priorities.

So, it is my understanding that the competitive process has been closed down. Is that correct?

Can you explain to me what the situation is and why my staff and congressional offices did not hear about this?

So, business as usual. It will continue to be to serve the veterans.

So, what does it mean short term, for someone who lives in Elko or Ely or Eureka, for these veterans who have to travel long distances, of course, to get health care if they are not provided in their communities?

I appreciate your visits to my State, which has been very, very helpful to the 300,000 veterans that we have in the State of Nevada.

I did introduce legislation last year with Senator Nelson, called the Residential Physicians Shortage Reduction Act.

I think that the Obamacare individual mandate was probably the most unpopular element of that law.

Repealing that mandate, I believe, restores individuals' abilities to make their own choices about their health insurance.

The elements of that that are very positive are empowering States to run their budgets.

I was proud, as you know, at the end of last year to work with some of my colleagues here on this committee as we worked through the historic tax reform bill.

I am one of the authors of the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson bill.

You can insure anything across State lines except your health care.

we are nearing the finish line this week on providing Nevadans and all Americans the real tax relief that they deserve and that they have been promised. As a member of the Senate Finance Committee, I have been fighting every day for the…