You acted with courage and forthrightness in setting up a system that I believe was fair to all.

We ought to have a lean bill, and see if we can go back to work this year and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

It sounds like we're getting some distinction between career-ready and college-ready.

I am pleased with that answer.

I look forward to working with Chairman Harkin on that as he--we were both thinking the same thing.

My preference would be to explore what we need to do to beef up and strengthen our voluntary retirement plans.

All of these regulations are well-intended. I mean, we don't sit up here and say we want to do something bad to somebody.

Simplicity I think is pretty big here.

I believe you've clearly put the spotlight on the right question, are workers saving enough for retirement.

Let's followup Senator Warren's comments, and mine, and that of others here.

This is encouraging to me because the legislation that passed in 2006 seems to have had some good effects.

If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would actually do that, it would double my--it would increase my appreciation of the agency.

I want to applaud you and Senator Enzi for your consistent focus on this.

I think you've heard some common suggestion here that rather than taking off regulations, we might try a model that starts from scratch.

We don't want to take anyone's freedom away to make his or her own decision about this.

I think it's important not to stigmatize people with mental health issues or generalize about the connection between mental illness and violent behavior.

It seems to me that as we're moving ahead with this Affordable Care Act and this new regime with all the exchanges and everything, we have an opportunity, I hope.

I look forward to working with you. We've worked well together in the past.

I am delighted to welcome Robert Vero from Centerstone of Tennessee.

I want to say to Senator Enzi how much I appreciate his leadership.

So it shouldn't be any surprise to Governors who are evaluating the cost of Medicaid expansion that the mental health parity law applies to Medicaid.

The statistics you mentioned--only one in five of children who have a mental health issue get seen or treated.

Could I encourage you to take a look at that and make sure that it's not a burden on the States?

This is a committee on which we can have some fairly profound differences of opinion when we're talking about new laws, new spending, new policies.

I, too, share the sense of urgency about the rules on Wellstone-Domenici being finalized.