Mike Enzi

Providers are sometimes forced to toss expired biomedical products that have been purchased, but not used.

I am open to any suggestions that you might have for ways we can bring that down.

We face some of the highest health care costs in the country.

Now, we talk about price transparency, both Senator Murray and Senator Alexander brought that up.

We have spent, as a country, quite a bit of time, and this Committee has led so much of the work, thinking about drug prices and appropriately so.

If we are not using more health care, why is it, as Senator Alexander said, why is it we are spending twice as much?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, I want to thank you for appearing here today and also for putting out the list of potential things that can be done.

I come from the least-populated State in the Nation. Our biggest city is 60,000.

Ted and I agree on about 80 percent of the stuff, and we disagree on about 20 percent of the stuff.

We have a spending problem in America, and so I look forward to hearing from our witness which ways the administration believes we can use taxpayer dollars more efficiently.

One of my greatest concerns as a United States Senator is our country's national debt, a figure that has now eclipsed $20 trillion.

I am proud of all the hard work and leadership that went into passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

We need to address the unfair disadvantages facing women as they plan for their future by making sure they earn equal pay for equal work.

We need to expand access to plans as almost half of the families in this country do not have a retirement account.

The hype of the gig economy has put a new face on the damaging trend of erosion in workers' protections and benefits.

Absolutely. I don't think we want to create an incentive that has schools wanting to turn away students of color or low-income students.

I think the first part is we really need to make sure we're tackling the financial incentives at the for-profit colleges.

I think it really boils down to the fact that we've seen that the Federal financial aid system is constructed so that for-profit colleges can generate large profits and large sums of money and grow without having to show a corresponding…

Thanks. I am going to switch to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the VA.

There is no extra fund to dip into if you do not have the money.

We need to take a serious look at the excessive and obscene executive compensation of defense contractors.

I think there has not been that type of oversight over the Department of Defense that needs to take place.

I think it needs leadership. It has some of the most serious management problems in the Federal Government.

I do not think a President should be able to do a trade deal or start a trade war without Congress giving it an imprimatur.

These efforts are helping American workers, small businesses, and families.