Jim McDermott: “Do you think you would have lost any of them if you did not respond to that request?”

None of us on our side who were involved in drawing it up thought for one minute that we had created the Ten Commandments off the mountain, which haven't been changed since Moses brought them down off the mountain.

the buck stops at your desk, more or less, is how it would be put in Harry Truman's terms, correct?

This is the kind of hearing where there isn't much disagreement about the fact that we want to have quality.

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.