Brian Higgins

Alzheimer's is a horrible disease. It inflicts pain not only on the afflicted, but those who love and care for the afflicted.

government funding is--has been involved in about 97 percent of the basic science and research toward the goal of bringing promising new cancer treatments to market.

This is not a giveaway. This is the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. People pay during their working years this retirement account from which they should expect reasonably to be able to take advantage of it.

Thank you for your leadership on this initiative again and I appreciate the ranking member's willingness to work in a cooperative manner toward the goal of preserving what we all want to preserve.

Based on the facts, you know, Social Security benefits are spent. So for every dollar that you provide for Social Security benefits, you get $1.50 in economic output.

For every dollar that you provide for Social Security benefits, you get $1.50 in economic output.

What can we do to make it better? What can we do to make it stronger?

If these people, these individuals, 62 million people did not have Social Security, what would they do?

Nobody up here, not one person up here, supports preexisting condition protections for the American people.

You can't do that anymore. It is against the law because of the Affordable Care Act.

Everybody up here does not support preexisting condition protections.

My colleagues on the other side can say they support people with preexisting conditions all they want, but the reality is that they continue to support efforts to undermine these protections that Americans want.

The Medicare program did what private insurance companies had the opportunity to do and decided not to.

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