At this point, the patient ought to be out of the hospital, done with rehab, and playing baseball with its kids.

The President's new health care law is creating a great deal of uncertainty and impacting job hiring today.

The Fed's extraordinary monetary actions pose three risks to our economy.

I just believe that at this point in the recovery, while it is very fragile, it really is the fiscal roadblocks... that are really key to getting this economy going.

I do not question the intention of current Fed policy to fulfill its dual mandate, but I question the policy's effect on employment, and I worry about its future risks.

I think we are all agreed that those kinds of things and the kind of delivery system reform that we have all been talking about is key.

I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the President's budget and other bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare.

The current Medicare spending trajectory is unsustainable. There is bipartisan recognition that modifying seniors' cost-sharing is appropriate and can be done in a way that maintains access to critical healthcare services. Medicare is fast…

The urgency cannot be overstated. And yet we want to build on what we know works, and we want to do what we can to eliminate that which we know does not work.

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Alabama, a former district attorney, State legislator, and county commissioner, who understands how communities struggle with health care, Mr. Brooks.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. What is disgraceful are these thousands of pages of a bill that was rushed through this Congress with little chance to read it, laden with special interest provisions to buy off votes, while…