"So that is much of what you are referring to when you talk about the lack of transparency, is that most of the time that audit is not, in fact, being conducted."
"I certainly believe with the emerging health care reimbursement models, this will be even more important."
"But, again, the fact that they continue to go back to PBMs suggests that there is efficiency somewhere."
"But they are not getting enough value out of it, the value is not being passed along to the consumer."
"I feel so strongly about the fact that we need a balanced budget amendment that I've even written a book about it."
"So the specific excess has to be identified and then the specific excess above the spending rates of this provision would be limited to that military conflict."
"I think that plays in exactly to my point about how Members of Congress, particularly when they understand that the buck stops with them as far as their interpretation of a particular constitutional p..."
"Each of us, when we're sworn in as Members of Congress, are required to take an oath to 'uphold the Constitution and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same'."
"But aren't there countless circumstances in which we benefit from the fact that there is some perhaps minimal uncertainty, the Sword of Damocles effect, in the fact that the courts could step in in a ..."
"This isn't a situation in which we can just do nothing because doing nothing will bring about a situation in which we're forced to make abrupt, draconian, and very painful cuts."
"The problem is that that power has been abused to the point where we're now $15 trillion in debt."