the mission of the Food and Drug Administration should be, first and foremost, on patient safety.

Medicare's current benefit design needs to be reformed in a way that more adequately reflects the needs and expectations of today's seniors.

The 12,000 new beneficiaries added to Medicare every day put pressure on the system and does move it closer towards insolvency.

I don't want to say whose fault is that, but why penalize the poor person who is trying to do the right thing and buying supplemental coverage with their own hard-earned dollars?

Typically, they would not. Medicare advantage is offering a different set of tradeoffs.

I always allude to the solo practitioner in Muleshoe, Texas, who really can't participate in an ACO.

I have got to tell you, several years ago in one of the SGR fixes that I have introduced since coming to Congress, and there have been several, but one of them actually did away with Part A and Part B and melded them together.

But ultimately that is why someone buys insurance, correct, so they are not hit with the entire cost of whatever the event might be that they are insured against.

Why is it OK to build the pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico, disrupt the lives of hard-working Texans, when the Administration apparently never had any intention of completing the other part of the pipeline that would actually…

I have always felt a little bit of unease by the willingness of the Administration to capitalize on, hey, I am here for creating jobs in America, building in America, and all the right things.

Today I rise to congratulate the city of Irving on the receipt of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. This award is the Nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and…

I feel like it is Groundhog Day. I mean every time I come into the subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, we are talking about the Keystone pipeline.