Jim McDermott

The joint effort of Attorney General Holder and Secretary Sebelius through the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, so-called HEAT, there have been measurable results.

I think the controlling of costs as we move forward in health care is going to be the toughest issue we face.

More than seven million people have signed up for health insurance through the Federal and state based marketplaces.

Thanks to ACA, every American now has health security because they can no longer be locked out of the market or discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition.

These bogus hearings like today's proceedings only delay the inevitable.

Do you see that as being an impediment to getting the votes in the Congress, if these kinds of issues are out there?

Your budget contains several proposals for structural reforms to Medicare, all of which will increase the cost on beneficiaries.

Anyone who is working full-time in this country should have a wage that is at least at the poverty level.

It strikes me that, year after year, the basket of goods that people can buy has dropped over the course of time with the minimum wage.

I think that, you know, we have to look at what we have accomplished. We have reduced the deficit by half.

The reason I raise this issue is that I want the people who see and hear about what happened here today to understand that doing what they are doing at Treehouse is not done on the cheap, nor is it done without money.

And the efforts to interrupt that, I think, are what we are really here to talk about today.

The issue that we are dealing with here is not Democrat, is not Republican. It is kids that are ground up in the system.

You are witnessing a rare occurrence, I think, in the modern-day Congress, a Democrat and a Republican working together on something.

You're going to get single-payer care because Americans are not going to walk away from people who don't have health care.

I'm sure we'll hear shortly how ObamaCare has brought problems in the Middle East and created problems in the waters of West Virginia and probably even climate change.

If we can get rid of this 30-hour rule, why, everything will be all better.

Accordingly, if the Administration of Congress chooses to make additional policy changes in the ACA, we ask that you advocate for allowing States with a functioning State-based exchange like Washington to continue with implementation as…

As I listen to this testimony, there are two countries. There are those States where they put up a State exchange, and then there are all the rest that sat back on their hands and said, let the Federal Government do it so we can throw…

This is the reform that America wants and needs.

Success doesn't come without bumps. It takes commitment; it takes investment and patience.

This is one of the biggest reforms our country has ever made and we are only 4 weeks into it.

With the way my Republicans colleagues have been fretting over the success of the Affordable Care Act exchanges...

Why was it the country didn't go into default or disappear from the face of the Earth because of this reckless spending that had been done by these Presidents?

So what they are talking about when they want to cut Medicare spending, they are really saying, we are going to cut what the government will spend for old people.