America will not settle for universal single pay healthcare.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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…

I rise today to again express my great disappointment about a matter of importance to Wyoming and many other public land States that have not been properly addressed by this omnibus bill in the Senate. Instead of producing a legislative…

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.

I too wish to congratulate the Senator from Oklahoma and Kay for their 54th wedding anniversary. It is quite a landmark for an outstanding couple. I hope they get to celebrate on their day. I think that probably, if we knew the final vote…

Yes, that is exactly the issue I was raising. We keep promising people that money is going to go to certain places and then we divert it to other places. I think that under the system of accounting we use, we probably could get it to show…

I rise to express my disappointment that the budget deal we will soon be voting on reflects just that, a deal--not legislation, a deal. It raises spending above the cap. That is the spending limit we put in place just 2 years ago. It…

we are here today dealing with a non- essential distraction from the issues our country should be dealing with. None of these nominees need to be confirmed right now. Rather, we should be dealing with the problems we see each day. I talked…

good morning, Wyoming. In Wyoming it is midnight right now. I suspect there are people watching and probably wondering what the heck is going on. We are here at this hour dealing with a nonessential distraction, and it is being done so…

Thank you very much.

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

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 would like to know a little bit more about the current culture at the Internal Revenue Service that a lot of my constituents view as wasting taxpayers' money.

One of the reason that it included some things that you would prefer not to have in it is that when the Federal Register is published and says that there is going to be this huge cost of people losing their insurance even though the…

many people supported President Obama's health care law based on his promises. Those words don't mean much now for millions of people receiving cancellation notices from insurers for their current plans, paying prices higher than promised…

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this timely roundtable to have a real discussion about what the Small Business Administration is currently doing to assist those who have so admirably served their country to make their…

While unemployment numbers for veterans remain unacceptably high, it is especially important that we look at the SBA programs and see how we can most efficiently and effectively encourage and assist current military personnel and veterans…