Joe Barton: “It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.”

The final Medicaid discussion draft, the ACE Kids Act, is introduced by full committee Vice Chairman Barton and Representative Castor.

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.

My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

Now, I want to ask Mr. Salo, you have mentioned two principles that legislation that actually works should have. You mentioned flexibility. Does ACE Kids have flexibility?