I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, thank you for your oversight of this evening. The gentlelady and I do not agree at all on football, she being from Missouri and my being an Oklahoma State fan, but we do agree on this. This is a…

I hope the full House will pass it on and we will send it over to the Senate.

How do we split that incentive?

I appreciate you had mentioned earlier about the rule change in the House. I'm proud to say that was actually my rule change that went through on that one as well to try to identify some of the duplicative programs.

I hope if there's a change in leadership, that rule continues, because it's really critical.

the taxpayers' right to know that Dr. Coburn had mentioned earlier, that's my bill here in the House we've talked about this committee has passed.

I appreciate you bringing it back out because that is something that I hope in the years ahead we can continue to add more teeth to it.

We can't both keep our plan and keep our doctors or keep the price and keep our doctors; we have to choose on it.

There is a tremendous difference between the hope of what this would be and the reality of what it actually is on the ground.

The problems are very, very real you all are experiencing on the ground.

Can we agree on a principle that is economic-wide, I guess, or economy-wide, and that is fair competition is better for the consumer than price controls?

the Affordable Care Act steps in and says, no, I don't want more competition; I want less competition.

It seems that there's a standard to get on disability that they can't have any involvement in any vocation in the United States right now.

Social Security Disability serves the most vulnerable in our Nation, and the individuals who are sitting in front of me have committed their life to protecting those individuals and helping in any way we can.

We've got to fix that.

Thank you to my colleague for hosting this. Mr. Speaker, about 3\1/2\ years ago, Americans started getting more and more frustrated. It is really a product of several years of building, this sense of helplessness as they struggled and…

I believe it is time to fix the system, and we intend to work with this administration in a bipartisan way to prioritize these solutions today.

We need to help you get a job, because we're losing you.

Our issue on it is, there are truly disabled people, that we're about 2-1/2 years away from insolvency in this program, that can be hurt on this if we don't find a way to be able to resolve this issue soon.

Just in time for a new President to scuttle it, but that's a whole different issue.

We exist to secure two fundamental principles: First, Americans have the right to know the money Washington takes from them is well spent; and second, Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them.

Chairman, let me just say this has been, I think, one of our best hearings, and we can really work together to make the system work better, and that's really our charge to do that.

But there has been a significant change in the last couple of years, and we're grateful for that, just the attention to be paid to it.

it's really important for us to do the responsible thing here, and I will work hand in glove with you to make it accountable, but also to give them the resources so they can make sure the right people are getting these benefits.

But to have a child that has a difficult time with articulation or a delay in articulation, that's a completely different issue.