Jim McDermott: “You do not want to work with this federal government. This Congress has tried to repeal EPA about two dozen times.”

We have made some substantive bipartisan progress recently. We need to build on our success.

Let me take an example, because we hear a lot of examples given up here.

This area is such a large part of our economy as well as such a large part of our question of national security.

A strong Medicare doesn't mean we turn the program over to the insurance industry, and it doesn't mean we shift more costs on to the beneficiaries.