We either invest to accelerate or we are going to lose ground.

I would also urge the committee to engage with USAID on how the child and maternal survival coordinator position can be strengthened rather than eliminated.

New York State is diverting about 40 percent of that money to the general fund to be wasted in Albany.

This isn't a time to be polite or nice or let's do better tomorrow. No, this is an abject failure.

I think the right people can turn this around in 48 hours. I am a turn around guy. That's what I've spent my whole life doing.

There was an abject failure of the DEA, going back the last 10 years.

If you can't do it, you ought to get out.

I think we are just all frustrated. There seems to be the bureaucracy mindset in the DEA today, much like we've seen in the VA.

Broadband access, as we all know, is important to our rural communities as our reliance on the internet continues to grow.

the provision of the House tax bill that would tax as income tuition that schools waive for graduate students working as teaching or research assistants, would impose--and this is a quote from the Rutgers president--would impose an…

I call that a loophole and here is why.

This thoroughly bipartisan effort takes the first step towards addressing the detrimental health effects of fighting fires.

I want to stress again what we are trying to do here is to make health care accessible, to make it affordable and to cut out the red tape and to bring the free market back.

while they apparently negotiated a significant settlement, it in fact did not reimburse the Federal Government for 20 years of egregious behavior which I would say was deliberate.

I think that the belief that significant flexibilities or block grants or per capita caps would automatically mean less delivery of care ignores that economists on the right and left center of the aisle believe there's significant…

I think we are here today really talking about unintended consequences. And there is no perfect solution.

Seven billion dollars would fully fund Zika. Seven billion dollars on top of that would rebuild 5,000 bridges in America.

It is about respecting the taxpayers. That is why this hearing is occurring.

But this Administration, in what we would say is an unconstitutional overreach, decided they would set the priorities...

It is about our children. It is about our grandchildren and the fact that every dollar of deficit that we spend today are dollars that my children, the other children in America, and the grandchildren are going to have to repay.

If we can't pay our way now, what are we doing in borrowing on the backs of our children and grandchildren? It is just fundamentally immoral.

If you worked for me you would be fired this afternoon.

I'm concerned about--I have a very rural area--access and it's exactly what we're seeing, that the private practices are being bought up for one sole purpose and that's so the DSH hospitals can cheat.

if there's a problem in the cost of drugs and cancer drugs, it's all the private oncology practices being purchased by hospital systems--DSH hospitals who then get a 50 percent break from the pharmaceutical companies on these expensive…