Ron Johnson

If you have the right kind of surveillance equipment, you can actually make the needles bigger.

The last administration has been a strong proponent--and it has gotten bipartisan support in Congress--to actually address root causes of folks in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador trying to get out of their countries, flee the murder…

This dangerous legislation uses per capita caps to deeply cut and radically restructure the traditional Medicaid program.

These cuts would be devastating to state Medicaid systems and mean life and death to people with disabilities.

It is great if you can get a phone, but if you do not have the broadband to be able to effectively use it.

So, a service provider basically sends an invoice to the FCC----

I understand the verification process in terms of whether one of these people who subscribe actually are part of that program...

I am shaking my head again here.

Is that term not an oxymoron, 'government efficiency'?

I think that there are merits to the first option. I also think there are merits to the second.

Absolutely as a first step.

This bill, I think, is sensitive to those concerns because it proceeds from the sort of foundation of the antitrust laws.

Yes, I think it would be. We are in a situation right now where there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what active supervision means.

Congress did pass what I thought was a pretty good law, the health savings account (HSA) law.

It is inexcusable that we are tagging them with this kind of increase in premium when it is all avoidable.

If I cannot figure out what a knee replacement actually costs as a sitting U.S. Senator, what shot does the American consumer have?

I just finished 25 town halls in my State, and I can tell you people are very worried.

Consumers really need to know what things cost.

So, if we do not want to pay our creditors $65 trillion in interest payments over the next 30 years, we do need to address the deficit in Social Security and Medicare and just the entire Federal Government.

For every $1 that is paid into Medicare through the payroll tax, beneficiaries get $3 in benefits.

Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare represent $87 billion out of a total outlay of about $328 billion.

The American taxpayer is going to pay for this.

The forgotten men and women I have spoken an awful lot about, the people that Bill Clinton talked about that are busting it, working 60 hours a week, they have seen the premiums doubled, tripled in some places.

Americans pay for 100 percent of this.

If we can agree on what the problem is, if we can really define it properly, I think it is going to be a whole lot easier finding common ground on a bipartisan solution.