The Republican budget eviscerates important investments in education and initiatives to enable people to move into the middle class.

We also have a responsibility to do this in our own questioning and our demand for accountability and transparency.

The American people deserve to be able to trust their government for fairness and lack of bias, and that was violated.

We need to be assured that those changes will be made.

We don't always have a panel that is so much agreement. So really very pleased to see the consistency of both intention that we should repeal this SGR permanently, and replace it with a new payment system that does reward quality and…

We have made a commitment, Social Security to seniors and to their families, and we ought to start with the premise of absolutely sustaining it and making sure it's there for our current seniors and our future seniors.

I hope that in this hearing and in future discussions, we will be able to honor their service by making sure we fully understand what happened, what could have happened differently potentially and, maybe most importantly, identify lessons…

I agree with Dr. Schrader, there are many of us who want to have a permanent doc fix and I hope we do that in Congress with the SGR.

we are going to deal with the deficit, we are going to create that certainty, we are going to do it in a way that does not hurt our fragile economic recovery.

How this evolves for Egypt is just enormously important, not only for the people--not only for the Egyptians but also for the United States and for the region.

Our friendship is not unconditional, that there are consequences.