we have more income and wealth inequality than at any time since the 1920s.

The GAO just came out with a report the other day--published by Reuters yesterday, I think--'Corporate tax breaks cost U.S. Government $180 billion per year.'

my understanding is that we are losing--and we have introduced legislation to remedy this--about $100 billion a year in revenue, a year, by companies' offshoring their profits in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and paying zero in taxes.

The point that I want to make here-- and, again, this is not against New York. They have their problems. Everybody else has their problems. We're all in this together.

The problem is that if you are a large State, a California or a New York State, you'll have the educational bureaucracy that can submit and work on enormously long and complicated application forms.

I have been extremely, extremely disappointed about the Administration's current approach to competitive grant programs.

I am absolutely supportive of putting significantly more money in education from preschool to higher education.

I think you've got to pay more attention, financially, not you, personally--you can go wherever you want, but what matters is the checks that are coming in to the States.

It's not just urban America that has serious problems, that we have kids in Vermont and in rural America who are struggling.

The State of Vermont, for example--and I don't think it's dissimilar in Wyoming and in other low population States--does not have the resources to put together an application like that for every Federal education program.

I want to thank all of our panelists for their wonderful testimony and to tell you that we are going to listen very seriously to what you had to tell us.

We strongly support the President's proposed funding level of $3.1 billion for Community Health Centers.

We have significantly increased funding for the National Health Service Corps, which says to somebody that if you are graduating medical school $200,000 in debt, we are going to help you address that debt.

The Nation faces a critical shortage of physicians.

I think the large turnout tells you how seriously many of us feel about this issue.

The THC program was an important new investment in graduate medical education in the Affordable Care Act.

The expansion of the Community Health Center program to new sites and for expansion of services at existing locations will continue until 2015.

In our country today, I think as many people know, we spend almost twice as much as do the people of any other country per capita on health care.

I want to thank Ranking Member Mike Enzi for his work. He and I have worked together on a number of issues over the years.

In my view and, I think, the view of all of the experts who have studied the issue, primary care is intended to be, and should be, the foundation of the U.S. health care system.

If we are going to attract young people into primary health care, we must make that profession more financially attractive.

I urge you to work to make a difference, not for me or you, but for the patients I have the privilege of serving, who desperately need their elected officials to care about what happens to them.

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is the national professional association representing the interests of more than 140,000 occupational therapists.

If we would enact a single-payer national health care program where everyone was entitled to health care as a right, we could focus on delivering the best care in the world to our patients.

Instead of holding back funding, we propose that the entire increase be used immediately to provide for the expansion of care to 2.5 million new patients.