"A lot of the workers in this country who are being told they are going to get expanded choices, according to my analysis and Kaiser, are going to wake up and find they don't have that expanded array of choices."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Geithner, it is good to have you here, and I know you have been logging some serious hours."
"In your view, does the Government have adequate legal authority to prevent future AIGs?"
"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the American people do not have a right to know who the counterparties are."
"to keep people completely in the dark as to who is being rescued and why, in my view, Mr. Secretary, is going to undermine the credibility that you are going to need in order to make additional reform..."
"How would you feel about having your health care taxed? about 107 percent say, 'No way,' usually accompanied by some pretty choice curse words before the words 'No way.'"
"I am trying to figure out what is in these bills that will lower their premiums, and I cannot find very much."
"I think Medicaid is a broken program. What I would like to see is poor people sitting next to their Congressperson in their doctor's waiting room."
"These are people who in many instances are seeing double-digit premium hikes, and they are hearing across Washington that their premiums are going to go down."
"What are the implications for small businesses? Because it seems to me absent the kind of cost containment reforms I would like to see, you set up a new entitlement program, small businesses get more ..."
"The President, to his credit, called these bonuses 'shameful'."