The Affordable Care Act is changing all of that.

I want to thank all of you for your service to our country and for being here today.

If done right, immigration reform will create jobs, strengthen businesses, bolster security at our borders, and keep more Wisconsin families together.

I'm new to the Senate, new to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but, back in my House service, I had the opportunity to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where I started to become more aware, and…

I never want to forget the impact that some of these reforms have, not only on the immediate Medicare beneficiary.

I want to thank our witnesses for highlighting the many promising Federal, State, and private delivery reforms that are underway.

In my view, our country faces twin challenges, stabilizing our debt and deficit without shortchanging our future.

Our budget is about choices, and it is about values.

We have an obligation to come together to find a balanced solution to avoid sequester and get back to the regular order of annual budgeting.

These arbitrary and indiscriminate across-the-board cuts will reduce, according to many economists, expected GDP growth by as much as half.

These are just some of the choices that we are facing that demand our action.