Maurice Hinchey

I think the responsibility for medical malpractice has done a significant amount of good work to upgrade the quality of health care in a variety of ways.

Thank you for participating at today's hearing.

the medical attention that has to be given there has to be immediate, and it has to be in ways that are designed to save the life of that person.

Joining the military should not mean that one has to give up his or her right to hold medical providers accountable.

The Carmelo Rodriguez Military Medical Accountability Act of 2009 will finally bring accountability into the military medical system.

Oh, I think that is very clear, yes. There is an awful lot of history of this situation, and I think that it is very clear in just a routine examination of that history, it is quite obvious that accountability upgrades quality.

I contacted Congressman Hinchey, and I wanted to get his medical records.

I don't think there are fewer doctors, no. I think that has not had an impact on the number of doctors that are available.

I think, looking back on it, that opposition is now very much justified.

There has been a great deal of skepticism about this situation from the very beginning.

What should we be doing to straighten this mess out?

You are dealing with oil and gas that is owned by the people of this country but is being exploited by corporations.

How much is that? How much is left over? Do we know?

Particularly vehicular traffic, and I hope that there will be a lot of attention paid to not advance vehicular traffic, not to create more roads in these places.

They should be looking not only in their own interest, and if they are only looking in their own interest, then we should be overseeing them to make sure that publicly owned resources should not be exploited at the expense of the people…

Are you doing any new analysis of that? Have there been any plans in place or potentially coming up that would look into that?

I just wanted to talk a little bit about, or ask you a little bit about this genetically pure bison...

That is a good step in the right direction for the first time.

I know that Secretary Salazar is focusing to some extent, in addition to a lot of other things, on alternative energy and some new energy program.

Secretary Salazar, thank you very much also, and thank you particularly for the very good things that you have been doing...

I think that there is a lot of, you know, factual truth with regard to that assertion.

I would hope that you would be, you know, paying attention to this, more so than the attention that it has gotten in the past.

You have what seems to be a very solid and secure plan to make a significant contribution to dealing with climate change.

If we want to solve this problem, drill offshore, drill offshore, give more leases to the oil companies which was so totally dishonest, completely fraudulent.

I think that is very good. I think that will be very helpful and very useful.