I would like to see CMS work with the user community at the provider level and come up with a way to incentive it without telling them they had to do it.

I don't see why CMS has to arbitrarily say this is going to be the way it is come hell or high water.

I introduced H.R. 702 last week to repeal the existing ban on crude oil exports.

I would encourage your comments on those two issues.

You have always been one of the most accessible Obama administration officials, and it is appreciated sincerely.

I have an Internet poker bill that would probably generate $50 billion over 10 years.

I bet not one of the panelists has offered a way to pay for it.

If we were willing to look outside the system we could do some oil and gas revenue royalties from the OCS or Alaska or federal lands.

I think Chairman Upton and Subcommittee Chairman Pitts are committed to going all the way this session with a real pay-for that solves the problem.

I think the discussion draft is an excellent document, and we can iron out the details through these hearings.

To paraphrase President Reagan, in his first campaign in 1980, he asked the American people: Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?