I have introduced legislation to pull back the curtain on the broken drug-pricing system that burdens the country.

The record, the actual factual record, does not show that.

if States believe they have a plan that raises the bar for health care in terms of cost and coverage, rather than lowering it, they ought to have a chance to try it out.

We commend the Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and Ranking Member Ron Wyden for recently introducing legislation, S. 1827.

We remain opposed to attempts in this Congress to enact substantial cuts to Medicaid.

The administration can't give a straight answer as to whether it'll cut off cost sharing payments, and it's already forcing insurers to raise rates.

I am very concerned about the possibility that some may be using the concept of flexibility to roll back consumer protection.

Transparency is an important first step.

the President has for months and months poured gasoline on the fires of uncertainty in the private insurance marketplace.

The chairman has been clear that he wants our committee to work on a bipartisan basis to help shape the future of Americans' health care.

The more this committee and the Senate can do to make biotechnology drugs more reflective of the competitive principles embodied in Hatch-Waxman, I think that will make the biggest difference in drug prices.

in a few minutes, I am going to start sprinting to the airport to get home to listen to Oregonians who have been clobbered by several megafires unlike anything we have seen in my home State of Oregon. On top of that, in addition to the…

This is the most brazen act of Obamacare sabotage yet.

I just kept looking at Caleb's medications, and I cannot figure out how you would be able to pick those up without some magical approach that we have not talked about.

I mean, obviously, we are going to have to have discussions back and forth on that, but that is my objective. That is our objective here.

There is no conceivable, possible way that the State of Maryland can fill the gap under the CHIP program if it is not reauthorized in a timely way.

Very important to know.

It is vital that the Congress springs into action in the days ahead to reauthorize CHIP's funding.

The Congress created CHIP with one goal in mind: that was to make sure that no American child falls through the cracks of our health-care system.

It is really important for States to have the certainty right now so that they can plan appropriately.

Your message--and that is particularly helpful--is that anybody who thinks they can wait around until December 15th to get serious about this----

I want to leave this hearing saying that I think we all understand--and you did not mean it that way, of course--that kids deserve the very best.

So the problems you describe would, essentially, be worse elsewhere?

The last thing that single mom needs is a government letter stamped 'notice of termination' explaining that her sick kids are on their own because CHIP funding has run out.

It happened because two very strong-willed United States Senators, the late Senator Kennedy and the chairman of this committee, acknowledged that they had plenty of differences on plenty of issues, but both said, we have got to do right by…