Mike Enzi

Senator Brown was here earlier, and I had wanted to be able to speak briefly. So if, when I finish my remarks, he is here, I ask unanimous consent that he be recognized to speak. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is…

I think this is a common sense solution, and I'm looking forward to working with all of my Senate colleagues to help pass this bill.

Make no mistake. The economic environment they're growing up in is rife with challenges that will require this knowledge.

I feel a new urgency about the importance of educating people about issues related to finances and from a young age.

I wish to thank the leader for that moment of silence. I hope everybody in America will keep the people of Boston--particularly those who were injured or lost family members and those who saw the pain and the tragedy--in their prayers. I…

The tax's purpose is to offset the costs of the Affordable Care Act

I am concerned about some recent reports that have identified some anti-competitive effects of excessive integration of hospital systems.

I have an inquiry. I would like to make a unanimous consent request that we be able to use our electronic devices while we are sitting at our desks on the floor so that we might get any communication that we need from our staff, and also…

I thank the ranking member for the tremendous job he has done and the hours he and his staff have put into reviewing these things. This is not an easy thing to follow. The book we have is an actual manual. The bill we receive to work from…

Yes. These are the latest figures. After the sequestration and after the fiscal cliff, it came down to that. Before that, it would have taken us 5 years.

That is probably the only way it can be done, is to have the President suggest this is leadership, this is management, this is what the White House is supposed to be in charge of and could do. I also know that even if the President talks…

One of the things that happen with the programs is they usually get named after some Senator and he is very protective of his particular program. This is one of the things that make it very difficult to eliminate programs. Yes, if the…

Absolutely. It looks like a tremendous manual. We have a thing called the Government Performance and Results Act, which is where every agency is supposed to list what they do and how we will know they completed it. At the end of the year…

These are supposed to be rainy day funds, but it's supposed to be raining really hard before they can get them out, not just sprinkling.

I think that would allow us to put the word, God-awful, in there.

I applaud him for all the work that he has done on this issue.

I worked on this with Senator Kohl for a while, and I'm now working on it with Senator Bill Nelson and hope that it becomes a part of whatever bill that you do.

It does look to me as though you are trying to force everyone into a Federal exchange.

I cannot thank you enough, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing.

So, without those CO-OPs, there is not much opportunity to expand the amount of competition then.

I have another 100 questions that my State needs answered, and we need them answered quicker than 6 months.

I cannot believe that we are forcing every State in the Nation to try to write their own program.

The post offices are absolutely essential in our rural areas.

It appears to me that most of the sequester was eliminated, and that is the first real cuts that we have made.

I think the sequester could have been done a lot more diplomatically and a lot more beneficially.