all the incentives for American businesses to offshore all the tax incentives they get when they move jobs overseas or hide revenue overseas, all of that, that is just wrong.

The history is that the Republican party fought through the fiscal meltdown for an austerity solution.

the sequester has indeed been stupid, painful, and damaging.

I will stand by that. Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.

For a senior who has saved, on average, over $1,000 by closing up the doughnut hole, that is no train wreck for the seniors.

I do not think there is any shame in a government-run health care program. I think we give it to our best.

Cutting spending in a weak economy reduces output employment and the effects are powerful.

A child showing up for Job Corps is in a different set of challenges than their age group peer.

should we also be looking at trying to get rid of these folks who are gaming the system and paying no tax whatsoever

I can assure you that if you are a parent of a child who is coming up on 26 and is able to stay on your health care and not be out there uncovered, that is no train wreck for you.

I do think that although the consumer market is a concept of some utility in health care, it is a long way from being a complete answer.

We run a health care system in which nothing has a price, as best I can tell.

The one place we have not looked at is tax expenditures.

if you have big oil companies that I think have made $1 trillion in profits in the last--I think it is 5 years, if I am not mistaken, maybe it is 10--$1 trillion in profits, and they are still coming to the American taxpayers' pockets for…

Bundling is a good thing, and letting consumers know ahead of time what different packages are going to enable you to do.

to masquerade it as a Medicare problem, I think, disserves the problem that we face and disserves the American public.

There is plenty of objective evidence that there really are enormous savings that can come out of our health care system if we treat our health care cost problem as a health care system problem.

How do you make this-- how do you try to put a price into this cloud of nonsense that is now the pricing system in health care?

As we try to solve a $4 trillion deficit problem, we have looked at the spending side, and we have already agreed to spending cuts of $1.7 trillion.

the idea that a hedge fund billionaire pays a lower tax rate than a hospital orderly or a firefighter or a bricklayer, that is just--I mean, you do not need to be looking for revenue to find out that that is wrong.

If you did not call that Obamacare, everybody in this country would think that was a good idea.

There is no economic rationale to having CVS, a prominent drug store chain, pay a 50 times higher tax rate than Carnival Cruise lines, correct?

You need to do tax reform.

I have been a supporter of the high-skilled worker legislation.

the waivers that you have granted have allowed more flexibility, have allowed them to escape the handcuffs