The way we want to build on it is repeal it and then go in a different direction.

I would like to thank the distinguished Chairman, Senator Rockefeller, for holding this hearing.

Republicans and Democrats lost their jobs. Republicans and Democrats lost their savings. Republicans and Democrats lost their homes.

I truly believe one of the best actions of this Congress was the 9/11 Commission report that was totally bipartisan.

Let me be the first to say that anything can be improved. If you have ideas about how to improve this law by making care better or more affordable, I am eager to work with you.

These centers are not Democratic centers or Republican centers, they are based on need, aren't they?

I think it is good for the Nation to better understand the program that the President has offered us.

Doctors don't make partisanship a part of their career.

It would seem to me that now is the time, the campaign is over, to try to improve and correct and get a broad-based consensus as to how we can better serve America in terms of health care.

ten years after the September 11 attacks, our first responders still suffer from a lack of interoperable communications.

First of all, it is a great opportunity to be here. I want to thank you for extending the invitation to me.

I don't think anybody will uphold that argument because they will never get to it because they will decide the case is valid...

cutting them even more than what they had then, I feel will make it impossible for them to implement Dodd-Frank and be responsible regulators.

The President has presented us with a budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much.

The President has disappointed us all by declining that opportunity. He punted.

Do you think that the tax increases that you are planning on in 2013 on mostly successful small businesses in the investment community in America, on job creators; you think it is not going to impact the economy?

How do we expect to win global competition? How do we expect to create jobs when we are taxing the engine of economic growth and job creation, small businesses, at rates in excess of 50 percent in most states?

I am concerned. You guys have the veto pen, and I just want to encourage you to not be afraid to take a stand.