I don't think anyone going into health care reform, certainly those of us who supported the Affordable Care Act, thought it was going to be easy or that it was going to happen overnight.

I am sorry, but that is just not good enough. We can't sit around and wait 10 years to start making important changes within the health care system.

I think Mitt Romney in the light of honesty and full disclosure admits himself there is a lot in the Affordable Care Act that he can work with.

To tell you the truth, it is not too surprising.

I really think this is the Holy Grail of what we need to be focused on when it comes to health care reform.

unless we start putting something in draft, putting something on paper, we are all dealing in a 30,000-foot theoretical level

So having that bipartisan conversation is difficult to have when you have principles or issues that we had previously agreed on that suddenly divide us today.

Unless or until you put something on paper so we can truly analyze the impact of this what this is going to mean, all this is theoretical.

I can't think of a bigger challenge than the dysfunctional health care system and the impact it is having not only on people's lives, but on our budget and our national finances.

One of my concerns with the Republican budget proposal and their voucher or premium proposal is the risk in and who is going to bear it.

I have tried in my way to work in a bipartisan fashion in this Committee.