Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We'll be keeping the record open formally for a week for written questions."

"If something is going to change, we in Congress have to change it. We need to do it now and we need to do it in a way that sticks."

"if we do not get this solved through technology, through systems reform, through better quality care, through a more rational payment system, then we will get to the edge of that cliff."

"Now the model is Thelma and Louise, and we are all in the car, and the cliff is right in front of us."