Lloyd Doggett

One addition to this bill from 2008 deals with the question of Medicare fraud. I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer), the cosponsor of legislation dealing with that and a member of the Ways and Means Health…

I think your testimony is really helpful and your ongoing participation.

By creating this national commission, we will be taking a step, an important step in the right direction.

Yet we recognize each year that there are thousands of children who face this cruel fate.

So I just wanted to make clear, while very sympathetic to the comments that you made, Mr. Sanders, that it was not my intention as we redrafted the bill to tie the hands of the commission or to deny it an opportunity to go wherever the…

We want some people who are actively involved, and so, since last year, changing it to have half of those appointees come from within the Congress.

Thank you, I am pleased to formally introduce Madeline McClure, who is the Director of the Texas Association for the Protection of Children.

It is my hope that we can use today's hearing and the expert witnesses that we have together with us in the hearing to perfect this legislation before its bipartisan consideration here in the House.

I am pleased that, with your personal leadership and that of Chairman Dave Camp, we are moving forward in a bipartisan manner to pass legislation to reduce the number of children who are exposed each year to abuse and neglect.

The problem is that CMS never agreed that this was a priority, or that it needed any attention.

I don't agree with Chairman Herger, that this has anything to do with the Affordable Health Care Act, because it has been going on so long.

I believe, Mr. Chairman, that until we go ahead and pass legislation on this, we are not going to get the action that is necessary.

We have had bipartisan agreement about the severity of this problem and the need to address it.

This is not a matter of frustration. It is a matter of the proper oversight of this committee over the actions of CMS.

I want to express my full agreement with the comments that you have made here this morning.

I couldn't agree with you more.

We attempted to respond to both types of informed decisions with the Affordable Care Act, and, over time, want the availability, particularly the expansion of access for poorer people to health care, remove any cliff or disincentive to…

Do each of our witnesses agree that it is important to maintain in its current form the Earned Income Tax Credit?

If I have a high-tech employee in Austin who has a great idea for a start-up, but a family of children with serious illnesses, it is an informed decision for that person to stay with their group health insurance rather than go out and…

For policymakers to best understand the impacts of the policies under review, we must investigate not just any work disincentives they may engender, but also work incentives.

I believe that is a mischaracterization of those important initiatives that help those who are struggling to become part of the middle class.

The focus of this hearing is not on the 1,500 millionaires who paid zero income tax in a recent year.

The richest one-fifth of Americans are reported to own 84 percent of the wealth of this country.

Certainly if we can perfect our tax system so that it does more to reward work we should do it.

I agree with the concept of reform but not with repeal so that we have access to health insurance for our workers here.