David Roe

That is what we need to simplify. Yield back.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you and the Ranking Member and the staff for putting this together.

I don't have an MBA from Harvard in business, but I have an MBA from paying bills for 30 years.

I agree with you a hundred percent that four of the seven members of my staff here in Washington, D.C. came in basically as interns, entry-level jobs, and they are great.

I mean, that is just a fact.

I am concerned about the VA's request to remove the VISN or Medical Center directors to be doctors.

To me, a veteran is a veteran.

I feel like you are a brother just like I am.

DOL proposed to make it harder for working families to save and plan for retirement.

Today I still agree with it. In fact, Republicans and Democrats have long agreed that we need to look at ways to strengthen protections for those saving for retirement.

I do not believe that and I do not think that you believe that, but there are some facts out there that we cannot ignore now.

All that money spent on the criminal justice system could have been spent on research-based and evidence-based approaches that would actually reduce the amount of opioids being consumed.

Finally, I think we are getting a consensus that early intervention and prevention is better than hospitalization and jails.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, I thank you particularly for your comments on the Affordable Care Act, where we have changed the situation from thousands of people every day losing their insurance to millions more being covered…

That is what I am hearing out in the real world, that you are not listening.

I think what I am hearing out there in the real world is we are trying the best we can to comply with these things.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for your pushing the rule for the end of life counseling. That is a huge thing.

The United States Preventive Task Force Services... made a recommendation that absolutely should not be done.

I appreciate you putting that on hold for two years.

Here is where Mr. Weidman is absolutely correct. Here's a blast. That is definitive.

I think we need to study it, make the presumption open-ended. I don't think we need to stop at the end of this year.

If something in your service caused you a disability, we need to compensate that disability. It is that simple.

I think you just extend the date, at least five years, or maybe indefinitely to study this issue.

I think it's hugely important.

We do fund our colleges based on graduation rates, not on heads and beds.