"I am willing to look at other pay-fors."
"With our national debt reaching $18 trillion last month, we face the gravest financial situation in our history, and we must get serious about bringing that number down."
"If we don't start making difficult decisions now, our children, their children will inherit a burden unlike any generation previously has ever seen."
"Fiscal year 2014, the Government collected over $3 trillion in taxes for the first time, thanks to the generosity of the American taxpayer, and yet, we still had a deficit of almost .5 trillion."
"I don't think any would argue that CHIP should not be extended, so let's just get it done."
"I will see this patient because I like you and you are a friend. I am not going to submit anything for payment because it is just not worth my--I will pay more in having my office submit this for paym..."
"CHIP was created, it is true, in a Republican-controlled Congress in 1997 as a joint federal-state undertaking."
"I would urge my colleagues to consider an extension during the lame duck to ensure predictability to the many states that have come to rely and appreciate the CHIP program."
"By funding the program through 2019, we would provide states with more time to plan for the future."
"I practiced for a number of years in north Texas and my own experience was that it was hard to find specialty physicians."
"We kind of heard during this subcommittee, during the passage of the Affordable Care Act, that once we were able to be in the elision fields of the ACA, programs like SCHIP wouldn't be necessary any l..."