How fitting that we are holding this hearing on February the 28th, as we have the greatest Olympic athlete of all time, who has won 28 medals, before us today.

Our Nation's HIPAA patient privacy laws should be improved to allow for compassionate communication between doctors, primary caregivers, families, and patients. Recently, the editorial board of the Observer-Reporter joined the conversation…

I think we have done a number of efforts I think both through the Medicaid program has done a fabulous job of working through that.

So here is an issue in where I think both sides of the aisle can agree that when you have a high deductible which is meant to discourage people from overutilizing the system that may work in some cases to keep people from running to the…

I am particularly concerned here about such things as the mental health disorders.

It was supposed to have been that it would increase outpatient visits and actually reduce inpatient and emergency room visits and it has had the opposite effect.

a bigger threat to their grid is the fact that Russia has invaded them and Russia has taken their coal fields away

We have to figure out how we're going to give health care to the 11 to 12 million people who have gotten health care because of this Medicaid expansion.

So we're using old data that's not accurate anymore.

Just to say, well, we shouldn't give the Medicaid expansion because these people are, quote, 'able-bodied' adults is not understanding who's getting it.

80 percent of the people who are getting the Medicaid expansion are working.

We want this to work, not hinder services.

I got to tell you: We have got all kinds of numbers. Twenty-five percent average increase. Nearly a third of U.S. counties have only one insurer.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 54.

Today, four people were charged with a violent crime after a Facebook showed 30 minutes of horror. The criminal charges barely scratch the surface in describing the terror experienced by an 18-year-old boy who suffers from mental…

Today is a day of joy, and it was, indeed, a long time in coming, but here we are. My time in Congress was redefined 4 years ago, on December 14, 2012, when 26 innocent lives were taken at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown…

The partial consent decree does not allow the EPA to substitute its preferences for choices made by Volkswagen.

I also want to say that the work you and Chairman Upton did on the 21st Century Cures is remarkable but predictable in terms of dedication that took place and the bipartisan work in this full committee that both the mental health bill and…

And now some have suggested this could also have a negative or anticompetitive effect on the existing ZEV infrastructure. Do you agree?

Does it go to the EPA?

And where will that money go if there's a fine?

VW betrayed the public trust with this cheating scandal, and we are here this morning to ensure the agencies responsible for developing and agreeing to this deal will ensure the public interest is protected.

So you have no say-so at all on how that money is spent?

This is the Oversight and Investigations hearing on Volkswagen's Emissions Cheating Settlement Concerning the ZEV Program Implementation.

It is also clear that VW deserved to be held to account for their illegal actions, for the harm to consumers and the environment, and this violation of the public trust.