Mike Enzi

We need to be clear with the American people about what will happen if we do not get health care costs under control.

I am concerned that the Federal Government has not been a good partner in the economic recovery.

Is it logical to assume that Congress' failure to act on these initiatives has had a negative impact on the job creation and the economic growth?

This is a problem of inordinate proportions, and it is in large degree a spending issue.

We need to face up to this. You know, it is like that old TV ad, Fram oil filter ad, 'You can pay me now or pay me later.'

We have got to address the issue where it lies, and this chart unequivocally points out that it lies in the fact that we are taking the size of the Government from its historic level of about 20 percent of GDP up to 25, 26, 27, potentially…

Should Government be a better partner in this recovery and move quickly to address some of the low-hanging fruit such as the business tax extenders?

A taxpayer bailout of the PBGC is not an option.

One of the reasons that we do that is, we have a good working relationship between the majority and the minority.

A lot of people probably don't realize that this committee passes more legislation than virtually any other committee.

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center Study Act will help to define this historic site.

The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study.

Congressman Hoyer has been the leader on that issue through all these years.

I can't think of any name that stands out there more profoundly than Steny Hoyer.

I am hopeful that should you be confirmed, we will find ways to achieve common goals to promote equal opportunity.

I am particularly concerned about the H1N1 pandemic, at the moment.

I think we probably ought to make all those corrections.

Can you describe the multiple levels of mandates that you'd be required to comply with, should this bill go into effect?

Of course, I'm hearing from the people that are standing in line for clinics, and then getting up to the front of the line and finding out that there isn't enough vaccine there to take care of them and their children, some waiting in line…

I can remember when Senator Byrd and Senator Dodd and Senator Kennedy and I were in a room trying to work out some of the problems of this.

I'm really worried about--I'm curious as to why this legislation is changing the number from 50 people down to 15 people.

I think anybody that's infected with it considers it a very vital factor.

Shouldn't the DOD's Guantanamo vaccine order be canceled and re-directed to the CDC, so that you can be sure that every child and pregnant woman that would have the vaccine that wants it can have it?

Mr. Chairman, today Americans across the country are trying to protect themselves and their families from the threat of the flu pandemic that's threatening the lives of children and pregnant women around the world.

Yet, most Americans who want to protect themselves by vaccination have been left in the lurch and told that a supply of vaccines may not even be available before the pandemic is over.