Kevin Brady

The administration has admitted time and time again, the law doesn't work, delaying one provision after another or exempting special interests or politically-favored friends from the most onerous parts of the law.

First, I want to thank the leadership of Congresswoman Jenkins' on such an important issue for families. We have two young boys. It is expensive raising kids--it just is--all across America. I don't care what you make or where you live…

The ACA brings a new level of uncertainty to those who depend on Medicare Advantage, and the time is now to consider the feature of these Medicare programs and the importance Medicare Advantage Plans play for a growing number of seniors.

I was around the last time Congress went after Medicare private plans in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.

There is no other room. That is correct.

The report points to one glaring conclusion. Seniors in every district in America, Republican or Democrat, now face damaging cuts to their health care and pharmacy benefits they selected because it fits their needs.

They have to reduce the benefits.

Just for the record, Mr. Baker, the trends have not changed because the cuts have not occurred. This hearing is about the future and the impact on our seniors.

Care coordination innovation within Medicare Advantage I think has been hugely helpful long term for our seniors.

The reason we are holding this hearing is that the Affordable Care Act cut, slashed more than $300 billion out of Medicare Advantage that so many of our seniors rely upon.

Or you have to increase the costs to seniors.

Seniors have a right to be concerned about what will happen to the health care plan they depend upon?

There is going to be real impact. It is coming at us soon.

It is the responsibility of this committee, it is the responsibility of this Congress to make sure that those taxpayers... do not have their money wasted.

It is another Federal program that is going to be easily scammed and easily accessed by someone willing to commit fraud.

The new definition of a navigator is a fraud agent.

You are doing a terrific job, not merely in representing U.S. negotiating agreements so critical to our economy.

I think the progress we are seeing is important in those agreements.

Thanks for your leadership and all the new energy you bring to the trade agenda in Congress.

Since the recession officially ended, real after-tax income has edged up by only 4.4 percent a person.

I do not see any bubbles right now.

I do not see a recession.

Chairman Camp's amendment simply seeks the truth. It seeks the truth about what the IRS knew, what they targeted, what they offered up--more importantly, simply to make available those on the staff who dealt with, supposedly, the loss of…

I think the OECD average is about 25 percent. That's where I would go, but I would go lower than that just to make America more competitive.

Yes, this was the Reagan prescription. Yes, this was the John F. Kennedy prescription.