The middle class is being destroyed in this country.

We have been buried in this tsunami of propaganda that the problem here is there is too much spending and there is not enough tax relief for the people at the top.

Our Republican colleagues resisted all the President's efforts or almost all the President's efforts in infrastructure creation.

If you play by the rules and you work hard, you are running in place; you are not getting ahead.

I am having trouble figuring out what the upside of getting rid of municipal bonds is...

I personally favor physician-led ACOs. If all of the ACO development is hospital-focused, you tend to get more consolidation, more market power that can lead to higher prices for private payers.

I think Members of the Committee ought to be aware of this particular article that shows that the ACA is already having an effect before these things go into impact.

One of the issues that we hear about, all of us go to various events, people come up and say, I can't find a doctor and I am on Medicare.

Some of the things in the ACA, the Affordable Care Act, these accountable care organizations, it seems to me that there are a lot of problems out there about how you control costs and how medical systems can move to do that that are…

I just want to take a second to enter into the record, or ask unanimous consent to enter into the record, an article from The Washington Post by Sarah Kliff dated today.

I am one of those that believes that you can have whatever opinion you want, but you can't have your own facts.