I think getting people back to work is one of the best ways we solve our health care problem.
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The CBO actually said that people now have the ability to choose not to work and be dependent on a government program.
The American people think about the Affordable Care Act, it is less popular today than it was the day it was passed.
The promise was the Affordable Care Act would decrease rates and make things more affordable. So any increase of a cost under the Affordable Care Act is a broken promise.
What we are talking about in the comprehensive sense is empowering the individual, trusting the individual.
We are suffering under [the Affordable Care Act], as the majority of the testimony here clearly indicates.
The rising cost of health care itself is one of the primary reasons so many people lack access to care.
I prefer to incentivize work, personal responsibility, and self-reliance over government dependence.
The President said the bill could save families $2,500 in coming years. Clearly, that has not happened.
The House passed H.R. 2668, the Fairness for American Families Act, again by Representative Todd Young from Indiana.
This legislation, in fact, would change the definition of the full-time employee from 30 hours to 40 hours per week.
I support Healthy Indiana plan because I support the states' abilities, all of our states, to innovate and look for ways to improve the way that we provide health coverage to our disadvantaged and low-income citizens.
Unfortunately, that goal is not going to be met by the Affordable Care Act.
My goal is to have every citizen in our country have access to quality, affordable health care in a timely manner regardless of your zip code in our country.
I think the gentleman is exactly right, if the American people show the Senate that the American people care as we know they do. This is still the home of the free. This is still an open republic, and it is still we, the people, who are in…
I would love at this point--I think we all would--to hear them say: We have a better idea, we are going to take it up, and we will show you. I would take that as progress, sir. This is what we have heard: silence.
Can you please commit to the committee, ma'am, to reevaluate the State Department's strategy to locate the majority of its leased space in the Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn area
We are following up essentially on last year's hearing when we examined the GSA's implementation of the administration's freeze on the Federal footprint.