Bob Casey

The number of IEDs is dramatically higher.

For me the mere expenditure of funds is not a measurement of success.

We really need really significantly higher job growth than we have had to make a dent.

Basically January to April.

The private sector number is up 154,000.

But that number alone, the African American number for most of the last year seems like it has been in the 14 to 15 range?

We know we cannot recover on the 117,000.

I guess in terms of the private-sector number, which I think is a pretty important number for us to watch.

And you said they are historic numbers?

And I also mentioned a few other categories.

I voted against the debt deal because I could not, in good conscience, support the use of a manufactured crisis to implement ideologically based policies that will further threaten our nation's economic growth and job creation potential.

For too long, insurance companies in many States have increased health insurance premiums with little oversight, transparency, or public accountability.

Let me give you an example of why the review of rate filings is not sufficient, and why I believe authority to block or modify is necessary.

Starting in September of this year, 2011, HHS is requiring that all non-grandfathered insurers seeking rate increases of 10 percent or more in the individual and small group markets publicly disclose the proposed increases and their…

The health reform law actually takes critical first steps to help control premium increases and ensures that companies spend more on medical care, not profits.

Health insurance premiums have doubled, on average, over the last 10 years, much faster than wages and inflation, putting coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

This legislation is a simple, commonsense solution, and we almost got it included in the bill, but we did not.

When I was last in Afghanistan, in August 2011, the four of us--Senator Whitehouse, Senator Blumenthal, and Senator Bennet--had a great briefing.

That's no way for the United States to operate.

Publically held federal debt increased from 33 percent of GDP in 2001 to 62 percent of GDP in 2010.

The absence of steady, responsible fiscal stewardship over the past decade has gotten us into a deep financial hole.

It is clear that the lack of enough good paying jobs is the most pressing issue confronting our economy.

Well, I think we're ready to wrap up, but anything that either of our witnesses would want to say for the record...

Doctor, anything on the security front, with regard to AQAP or al-Qaeda generally?

I think most security experts, I guess, would say that's where they're strongest or at least seem to have the strongest foundation in place.