Bob Casey

I agree that empowering people to make better decisions about their health care is the first step in really transforming our health care system.

But if you had to make your lists of steps we should take----

I think that, as the article suggests, there should be all kinds of interferences in the marketplace, because it is not a free marketplace.

We are out of time, so if you could itemize them quickly.

I have a question that I am going to ask all of you, but I start with a line--I know it is not the best way to summarize testimony.

Price control for patented, lifesaving drugs, I think, is necessary, and it is an experiment that has been tried by every other country in the world.

I would just remind the Senator that I did write that there are a lot of very good, positive provisions in the Affordable Care Act, but they do not attack the price issue.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We want to thank the members of the panel for being here, for your testimony and your scholarship.

Well, I have no doubt your work has saved a lot of young people already.

One of the most inspirational parts of your testimony is that you have figured out a way to take what happened to you yesterday and inspire others for tomorrow.

That is just wrong. It defies common sense, and that is right at the heart of our bill, to amend Federal law to make sure that, in every corner of the country, child victims of sex trafficking are considered as victims of abuse and neglect.

Ms. Graves and the other panelists, we are grateful for your testimony here.

What we do not want to see happen is for us to do the typical cut-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face effort where, in essence, an industry moves from a country, like Bangladesh, that needs jobs.

There is a responsibility there amongst the Government of Bangladesh to make sure they take care of their own citizens.

I would urge you to embrace, I think, what has been a pretty strong consensus here, and I think throughout the country, on the maximum protection possible.

There is a lot of skepticism about the ability to open up those markets, and we look forward to working with you on it.

Thanks for being with us today, and thanks for your willingness to serve.

I have to say, as well, for the work you have done to deal with a set of economic circumstances that we have rarely faced in American history.

The issue is tax reform.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Vice Chair Klobuchar, thank you for making this opportunity available to us.

I think this reconciliation process needs urgently--and it ought to be U.S. Government policy urgently--to expand this reconciliation process to include those constituencies.

Are we going to do something to try to counterbalance their vote by trying to push forward a leader who will truly not be an American puppet?

You should use this opportunity to make sure that you have an election and it goes well, and that will be your legacy.

I am one of them. In fact, for a couple of years, I was probably one of the leading critics.

Many Afghans continue to question our commitment to their democracy.