Rob Portman actually said...

"I hope this hearing gets a lot of attention, and I hope your testimony gets a lot of attention."

"I just think it is totally inappropriate for you all to say, as Mr. Slavitt just did, they did the best job they could with the information they had, and that somehow, this is just a problem with star..."

"The experts tell us that, if anything, the year-end claims numbers are likely to turn out even worse than they are now, that it is not going down, it is going up."

"This was the fault of HHS, the way the program was structured."