Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I appreciate very much that the Chairman has been willing to work on this and has made it one of the priorities for this Committee."

"if we keep pushing on delivery system reform, the bipartisan SGR, the 'doc fix' that we have included, we have lots of potential to dramatically increase savings and lower cost growth in the future."

"we run a health care system in the United States that is grotesquely expensive per capita compared to any other industrialized nation."

"climate change is a wise fiscal--focusing on climate change is a wise fiscal policy, as well as for other reasons."