Rob Portman

If you are saying everything was done right, we did the analysis just as we did with the initial loans, it is just not accurate.

Deloitte will not provide an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the proposed changes to each CO-OP's business plan.

Let me tell you what the New York CO-OP situation is, because you question our numbers or you have not looked at the numbers yourselves. This is how we got into that mess. It vastly overshot its enrollment targets while underpricing its…

Let me give you a few highlights.

The number that you hear commonly is that 9 out of 10 of these packages of heroin, which are killing our constituents and the people we represent, are getting through.

This porous border with Mexico provides cartels reliable means to infiltrate this country--to smuggle and traffic drugs and people in the United States.

We will lose probably 25 people in Ohio, this week, and 100 people in America, today, to overdoses.

I have got to tell you, I found your comment just then very interesting. You said if members would just go and see these cleanup sites they would understand it.

What MPRA did was to allow plans that otherwise would fail entirely to preserve benefits and keep them from falling all the way to PBGC levels.

These proposals, while motivated by the best of intentions, would likely result in greater benefit cuts and greater suffering.

This bill was not designed as an alternative to MPRA but addresses one of the more egregious deficiencies.

It is not fair in terms of the result, and people say, 'Well, you are just worried because it is Ohio.' It is not just Ohio.

Well, that is a really important point to make, and I thank you for letting us know that there is a solution out there that is, I think, very reasonable.

I cannot wait to talk to you, Rita, but let me just ask Cecil a quick question.

He had fierce determination. He was a Vietnam Veteran. He was a proud patriot.

The purpose is not to stop the process of fixing it, but to ensure that everyone is at the table.

These Teamsters played by the rules, as was talked about today, did exactly what they were told to do, and worked long hours and many years with the expectation that this would be there.

Thank you for sponsoring the Pensions Accountability Act, which will fix the broken voting process in MPRA.

You are speaking for hundreds of thousands of others, and I have met with hundreds of those pensioners of the Teamsters in Ohio.

If there were hundreds of thousands of Social Security beneficiaries getting their retirement benefits cut by as much as 70 percent, there would be a national outrage.

By the way, the CARA legislation also authorizes the Pregnant and Postpartum Women's Program...

I think that is important.

But this legislation that Senator Toomey has proposed is really important, because it says with regard to Medicare, let us be sure that we are not allowing people to do the kind of pharmacy-shopping and doctor-shopping that leads to abuse.

But there is also a subset of Medicare beneficiaries who are innocently getting duplicative opioid prescriptions.

This is fraud. That is what is happening in most of these cases.