Jim McDermott: “Do you know that there is an election some--are you aware of that?”

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

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

Mr. Blumenauer put through a bill, Mr. Levin and I put a bill in 25 years ago, that everybody in Medicare ought to file an advance directive.

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.