"I think MedPAC has over the years served us very well."
"We are overpaying some of the very low-performing Medicare Advantage programs."
"We all agree that we want the United States to have unparalleled military might and the ability to protect and defend this country, but I think most of us would agree that we are spending too much for..."
"We have a nuclear arsenal that is going to cost about three-quarters of a trillion dollars this next 10 years, and much of it is directed towards the threats of the Cold War and the former Soviet Unio..."
"I hope that we stop defending east Germany from western Russia."
"The costs in the long run are as egregious as anything that we are facing with other entitlements, and we really have not talked about how we are going to cope with that."
"Rather than having an ongoing debate to minimize to try and get in the way of health care reform, we should be accelerating it."
"I represent a State, Oregon, where we have made a commitment to the Federal Government to reduce our Medicare spending 2 percent a year over the next 5 years."
"Seems kind of goofy, but that is the political process."
"The complexity that some people want is just going to add costs and water down the ability to deliver overall high quality service."
"I think there is no question, but what as a result of hearings we have had, and conversations we all have, that the tax system is broken."
"It is manufacturing in the United States that gets hammered."