Jay Rockefeller

the Senate is taking a hard look at those concerns and recommendations.

Our security system should be much more risk-based.

We need to talk about information. That is, about passengers.

It's got to stop. And fortunately, the Affordable Care Act takes a lot of huge steps to restructuring the system.

Clearly, health insurance is, first and foremost, important to us as individuals, but it is also very important to us as a society.

We need to move away from that system. We need much more transparency and accountability.

Once fully implemented in 2014, the Affordable Care Act will dramatically reduce the number of uninsured Americans.

We were able to find a sensible center, and the resulting bill signed into law will help refocus and reinvigorate NASA.

Underinsurance is a serious problem for American consumers and for American healthcare providers.

I intend to fully exercise this committee's oversight role throughout the transition and implementation of the NASA Authorization Act.

The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 was signed into law nearly two months ago.

You can't say that 10 percent of the people don't count.

More than a million Americans wake up and go to work every day thinking they have health insurance, but I think the fact is, they don't.

Public policy has to come aggressively to the rescue, to encourage people through--that's why all of the prevention in the healthcare reform bill is all free.

Wendell Potter...called them 'fake insurance'--his words--designed to earn big profits for the insurers but provide little value to customers.

you can't just be happy about the 90 percent, you've got to take full responsibility for the 10 percent

Once the Affordable Care Act... is fully implemented, underinsurance will be largely eliminated.

The bill would not consider the company providing backend billing and other services for the initial merchant to be a posttransaction third party seller. Therefore, the provisions of the bill governing post-transaction third party sellers…

This legislation is not intended to limit a company's ability to provide its customers with a seamless transition when a company sells its assets or arranges to have a new entity provide the products and services it previously provided to…

The new pat-down procedures embody the enormously difficult task--unavoidably difficult task--impossible task--of balancing the need to protect the public and the need to maintain their privacy.

I can tell you that the threats are, as we indicated the other day in our conversation, extremely real and extremely ongoing.

We face a deadly and determined enemy who seeks to do us harm--enemy from without, enemy from within.

I appreciate peoples' concerns. I understand that there's a frustration.

Congress has acted to improve our Nation's intelligence community--and therefore our national security-- by passing an intelligence authorization bill and sending it to the President. The President's signature will enact this bill into law…

I urge the NAIC to maintain its pro-consumer perspective and to reject the health insurance industry's last-minute attempt to erode the good work of the [NAIC].