We are ready and able to reimburse the trust fund, but we need your help to clear the bureaucracy out of the way and make a sensible MSP system that will actually work.

I am frustrated here because we are trying to get information on something I am not sure you collect the very data that we are trying to find out.

Are you aware of some I referenced in my opening statement here that Rand Corporation just completed a study that found if you only looked at settlements greater than $5,000 instead of every single settlement, your collections would fall…

We want to preserve Medicare for seniors. It is important. It is essential. But it is a mess.

I hope that that information is getting to her.

Hundreds of millions of dollars that should be repaid to the Medicare Trust Fund are sitting in lawyers' accounts.

There are massive inefficiencies in Medicare that are causing the program to go bankrupt. One example is infusion therapy, or the intravenous delivery of medication administered to patients suffering from cancer or serious infection for…

it is important to adhere to scientific information because the implication is not only what happens to Yucca Mountain, but this impacts the credibility of the NRC on many issues of licensing.

It is not a crime but it certainly is not an up-front way to do business.

It is not being fully informed, correct.

According to the administration's own estimates, its regulations are going to force half of all employers, or as many as 80 percent of small businesses, to give up their coverage in the next 2 years.

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work--work with us, not over us, stand by our side, not ride our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it, foster opportunity and not…

its regulations are going to force half of all employers, or as many as 80 percent of small businesses, to give up their coverage in the next 2 years.

the dance the Department of Energy is doing that is thwarting that law, adding new standards that are not in the law, is also quite clear.

Even those exceeding what the estimates are that the bill would actually provide health care, an equal or double that amount may lose health care.

we see estimates that are not 9 million people will lose their benefits, but as many as 30 million, 40 million, 80 million.

I think it is extremely valuable if you could report to this committee on that very specific issue.

I would like to engage in a colloquy with the gentleman from Alabama about some concerns about the Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Standards, known as CFATS. The Committee on Energy and Commerce has voted by more than two- thirds to…

Simply put, the Administration is acting in violation of the law.

A gallon of gas is over $4, heading to $5. The average family spends $2,200 more on gas than they did 2 years ago. Fourteen million Americans are out of work and wondering how they are going to put food on the table. America's…

the Medicare and Medicaid systems in my mind are so hopelessly outmoded that the old tool, when everything looks like a hammer, everything--when the only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and all Congress knows how to do is…

Back in the 1990s when I was a State Senator I authored and we passed into law, actually got bipartisan support, a Patient Bill of Rights Law, and much of that was dealing with at that time the problems of managed care, where we found out…

I want to make sure that we have accurate information here and we are not simply exporting a problem to have it reimported in the air and in products.

Here is the situation: Here is coal. We have lots of it in this country. Unfortunately, it is dirty to burn.

I am concerned also about unstable landfills that could cause slides and disrupt communities, et cetera.