I thank the panel for their testimony. I'm going to concentrate on trying to figure out what we need to do to eliminate unintended consequences of the new law.

The answers we have received, however, are often very late and they rarely adequately address the issue in question.

I was very pleased at the State of the Union, that the President mentioned that there are flaws in the Health Care bill that need fixing.

Congress has an obligation to conduct oversight of Federal agencies, to ensure there is transparency in our government and that Federal dollars are used as Congress intended.

the discrimination against children with preexisting health conditions is the worst of all worries for parents

You and I know that the Congressional Budget Office is limited by what documents we give them to make their analysis on.

It's the policy that's flawed, not the marketing plan.

I have this healthy respect for the importance of flexibility in terms of how States implement this.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I believe that we can and should do better. I intend to focus on ways to eliminate the provisions in this new law that limit our basic freedoms.

We must make health care more affordable for both consumers and the Federal taxpayer.

It's easy to pick a few paragraphs out of a 2,700-page law to find a few provisions that are popular.

I would hope that we could make a fix in the law as well, so that people don't just buy their insurance on their way to the emergency room.

I was a little disappointed when the President missed the opportunity in the State of the Union speech to say exactly what you have been saying here today.

I was a strong--I was a cosponsor of the Deficit Commission, the Conrad-Gregg Deficit Commission, and I voted for it.

I am very concerned about the Fed's policy of quantitative easing where it is buying up the government debt.

I think we are at that point where people need to be saying, we cannot afford it, even though it might be a good program.

Our Nation's fiscal policy is in tatters. Our projected level of Federal spending growth is unsustainable.

I think the goal should be to find a cut that you could make tomorrow or late this week.

If we default on that debt, I think we are saying something about how valuable our trust funds are.

I think we do have to do all of them, but I still think we will have to do them kind of one at a time.

I was a cosponsor of the Conrad-Gregg deficit commission bill and was pleased that we got one, one way or another.

If the expenditure has already been made, then it cannot be used to do the other piece there.

I am really concerned about the rapidly rising debt-to-GDP ratios and watching what is happening over in Europe.

So it looks like it would put a lot of people out of business and raise prices.