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We must be prepared with the resources and the assistance on a local, State, and Federal level to successfully respond to a mass casualty event.

To all of our first responders who are here with us, thank you, and around the State. You put your lives on the line every single day.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. I want to thank Chairwoman Brooks for organizing this field hearing and for allowing me to participate.

Redundant to the Treasury Department's blog post, it bears reminding. They're sitting over there, gathering dust, as the American people demand relief. It is so important. I want to thank you for your leadership on this issue. Those in…

Out in Colorado: Fort Collins Small Businesses Prepare for Affordable Care Act Changes; The World-Herald: Districts to Cut Back Paraprofessionals' Hours as a Result of Health Care Law. It's already even impacting paraprofessionals right…

I introduced the bill in response to some of the same things I'm hearing from my colleagues who are, in turn, hearing from their constituents and the sort of things I hear back home in Indiana, which is this is absolutely ridiculous. We're…

That's right. And we have legislation here, again, to address this problem, like the Saving American Workers Act. There's lots of cosponsors here in the House.

Why is that happening? Why is that happening? Well, you've got employers that are now mandated to provide health insurance to their employees, and many of them, in order to remain profitable, must change their way of doing business. So…

Let me press ``pause'' here before we read more of these headlines, which are incredibly illustrative and instructive. So many of them deal with the cut in the number of hours for our wage earners during the worst economy since the Great…

There are people behind every one of these headlines. Forbes says: Labor Unions Are Indicating That ObamaCare Will Shatter Our Health Benefits and Cause Nightmare Scenarios. My recollection was that labor was very much behind this bill…

So the Contra Costa Times of Concord says that half of the Affordable Care Act call-center jobs will be part-time. The Missourian says ObamaCare is going to impact Franklin County workers. The Weekly Standard reports Wisconsin grocery…

I think one out of every six members of their conference were supportive of your bill.

Well, kudos to the one of, what is it, six colleagues on the other side of the aisle that joined us in voting for your bill.

Potentially, you, myself and so many other Members of this body agreed with the substance of the President's blog post, though one would question whether we were intended to be a Nation of laws or instead a Nation of blog posts. We could…

That's what most Hoosiers think as well. I think I've traveled quite a bit, gotten to know people around the country. And I don't believe I've encountered, I reckon, anyone who thought that full-time was 30 hours. So where did this come…

Well, the mandate is that every employer across the United States of America who employs 50 or more persons on a full- time basis must provide government-sanctioned, government-approved health insurance to their employees. Now, look…

Are these some of the very same bills, my good colleague, that the President in recent speeches has characterized as partisan, misguided, meaningless? I do believe you may be referring to some of those bills.

I think it was poorly written by unseasoned probably analysts that contributed, and I would sense that there wasn't strong leadership involved as well.