During the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him he seemed to be a "process man" who was not focused on quality of care.

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Right now the agenda in the House is mostly being run by a core group of conservatives called the Republican Study Committee, and they're led by a man named Mike Pence of Indiana, not a member of the formal leadership, but somebody who is insisting on the budget cuts, insisting on extending the tax cuts, and taking a hard line on Iraq.

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