John Rockefeller actually said...

the problem of writing legislation, and trying to make it on a bipartisan basis and getting it past the Senate

The new health care bill, which everybody loves to hate but I do not, has I think $10 billion for rural health clinics.

Hearings are important because often they are carried on C-SPAN. People learn from them, we learn from them.

That should be the way we get things fixed.