Joseph Pitts actually said...

"Rather than continue a successful program and encourage innovation, now we are faced with a rule to ruin one of the only working parts of our current healthcare system."

"The removal of these drugs from protected class status risks the lives of current and future beneficiaries."

"Why is the Administration dead set on pushing policies that harm seniors and using their Medicare program as a piggy bank to fund other healthcare programs?"

"It is disheartening, to say the least, that this committee needs to hold a hearing bearing the title 'The Worldwide Persecution of Christians.'"