I have great reservations about the whole idea. It is my view that cuts in Medicaid can be achieved by intelligent and sensible mechanisms.

We have, in my view, come some distance, ... We got a long way to go before that can be achieved.

First and foremost, we believe in tax cuts,

Mr. Brown was regrettably an administrator, or an officer, or the head of an Arabian horse association. Hardly qualifying him to address the kind of problems he is looking at now.

The plan is long on directions and short on resources for non-federal partners in pandemic preparedness.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.