Who had the authority? Are you required to follow law as passed by Congress?

No kidding. It really did. So who makes that decision?

You are sending kids out there and you do not know where they are going or who they are going to.

the ability to release a child to someone who has not been properly checked is of great concern.

But unfortunately, every dollar that we are talking about is going to be borrowed.

Oh, my God. You have described an absolutely staggering, astonishing volume of dollars which the country didn't have.

I can only draw the conclusion that you didn't look at the data that was available.

It is a failure because of poor planning on the part of HHS and mismanagement of the law passed by Congress.

We are very quickly on the road where we are going to be spending more money, mandatory spending, on the interest payments that we spend on defense of the United States.

I voted against the No Surprises Act because I was worried about this exact thing.

I cannot afford to see a Medicare patient. That is a tragedy.