Mike Enzi

If confirmed, I want to work with you to ensure that we continue the opportunity for the public to give input and comment on regulations to ensure continued access to quality, affordable health care coverage.

I understand that HHS has established national centers to provide technical assistance on topics such as child care quality improvement and subsidy innovation and accountability.

Open enrollment will now begin on November 15, 2014 and will end on February 15, 2015.

During your tenure at OMB, we saw a massive failure of a Web site, which was HealthCare.gov.

I always enjoy the visits with you.

Can you assure the committee that this decision was based on input from insurers, consumers, and other stakeholders, and not simply made to provide political cover for vulnerable members?

Many of them were union-sponsored plans, which would create the appearance of political favoritism.

Ted and I agree on 80 percent of the stuff. We disagree on 20 percent of the stuff.

I have heard a number of concerns from food producers about the overly prescriptive framework when considering the preventive controls for human food.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That used up 10 seconds of my time.

What concerns me even more is that it doesn't appear as though the FDA has adhered to the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act in how it went about publicizing the proposed rule.

I worked with Senator Tester on the Tester amendment which was the Food Modernization Act that provides specific accommodations for preventive controls in the law for small farmers and producers.

I am pretty sure that the Affordable Healthcare initiative was designed to fail.

America will not settle for universal single pay healthcare.

Of course, the President has proposed a Preschool for All Initiative to provide all low-and moderate-income 4-year-olds with access to high-quality preschool.

What used to be education programs and we are paying for as education programs are now often babysitting programs.

Well, I hope there will be some emphasis on that.

Over the next decade, spending for Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, and the other major health programs will represent more than half of the Federal budget.

Funding invested in early education programs save the taxpayers later on.

In the last month the Congressional Budget Office estimated that spending on Medicaid is expected to increase by $574 billion, more than twice 2013, and Medicare will rise from $585 billion to $1.1 trillion by 2024.

In the committee the Senator is talking about with Senator Wyden, what we have always talked about is a transition to do anything. There are a number of ways we could transition this that I do not think would hurt the Federal Government or…

49 percent of Wyoming is Federal land. We understand the value of having some Federal land. We like the people who come to visit it. But there are a lot of expenses that go with that, and to just jerk the money away--right away.

One of the things being an accountant will teach you is that numbers do not lie.

Will you commit to expediting discussions with the Free File Alliance upon your confirmation in order to renew the program for another 5 years?

I hate for the IRS to step in and muddle it up.