"We know that if we have a competitive infrastructure... we can be more competitive and grow our economy."
"this indifference and this refusal to take 100 cents on a Federal dollar to pay for the expansion of healthcare coverage has been a subject that has been raised by business leaders, by hospitals, by e..."
"there are many factors contributing to these hikes and surges in health insurance premiums, and one of the major factors is the failure of this House and this Congress to do anything but engage in obs..."
"there is nothing but repeal, repeal, repeal."
"To condemn President Johnson's war on poverty as a failure is to ignore the many who never engaged in fighting that war."
"I would love a report at the end of the year to show that if every one of these bills are adopted, that one person got out of poverty this year in America because they were adopted."
"Time after time, not only in Texas, but across the country, we see the price that is being paid for our failure to deal effectively with child abuse."
"There is only one major concern about that and about what we are not doing on child abuse here, and that is that talking about it, passing changes without approving necessary resources to get to the p..."
"there is a serious pharmaceutical price problem and begin to look for some answers rather than simply to ignore the problem."
"high pharmaceutical prices are taxing to the American people. In fact, I think they are overtaxing."
"It says to Burger King, 'It is okay to go run off to Canada to invert. We are going to cut your taxes more.'"