Pat Ryan

Well, if you are talking about encouraging people to work, absolutely.

We want to work together. We want to come up with a bipartisan solution.

We are here to strengthen Disability Insurance. That is our mission.

We need to reboot our thinking here.

Make sure all the benefits are paid on time.

Make the program work better.

First, no 20 percent cut. Stop that from happening. Not going to happen.

Help people who can and want to work get back to work.

We are not raising gas taxes, plain and simple.

As we look at our surface transportation, it is going to be enormously important for us to work in a bipartisan fashion to come up with solutions.

So we have Federal policy colliding with each other. And the casualty is our roads and our bridges.

The current financing mechanism isn't really working, and I want to ask you a question about why that is.

We are not going to raise the gas tax.

I want to thank Chairman Reichert of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures.

The President after the G-7 summit this week said the Affordable Care Act is working.

I really do hope, regardless of the court decision and how that goes, that we will be able to work with the Administration on addressing some of these affordability costs.

Sadly, Madam Secretary, the President continues to shamelessly condemn and attack those standing up for patient-centered health care.

I urge, I urge CMS to delay any penalty for coding errors for at least 2 years.

I believe we need to look for improvements in the law, to strengthen the law, but that the idea of denying relief to people who are receiving it right now is to take away from them Federal tax assistance.

Is the President going to come out and say, 'Only my way or the highway,' one-sentence, one-page fix, or is that President of the United States going to be thinking less about digging in and defending his law as exactly written?

Will they stand up with one piece of paper and say, 'My way or the highway,' or will they work with Congress to address the situation?

We would like to free people from some of these mandates.

So here is the question I am trying to get at. Is the President going to stand up and wave, I have a one-page bill, I have a one-sentence fix, take it my way or the highway, is that going to be the Administration's position? Or is the…

The American people, they deserve better. They deserve a healthcare system that puts the patient first.

We know the most egregious example, the subsidies. The law says that people who buy plans on State exchanges can get subsidies. It doesn't say anything about Federal exchanges.