These figures show an immediate need to redouble our efforts to increase our voluntary compliance programs that have proven so effective in reducing workplace injuries and death where they have been implemented.

I'm offering to sign a bill and not veto it.

The nation can't afford that kind of inefficiency, red tape and inflated costs when we have an entire region to rebuild, largely at taxpayer expense,

These talks are not for show, ... We hope to work out a compromise, and the president is committed to keeping the lines of communication open with Norwood throughout.

They've lost their ability to choose their health care professionals, and the heart of that is they're being denied care.

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

We have five chairmen on our bill from the Republican conference, and that's very important. We're where we been trying to get to for three years, and that is to say to the leadership: "Listen, let's discuss this and let's come out with a bill this year that protects patients in reference to managed care." That's right where we are.

We're not trying to take everything in the state, but we would like the 12th back,