I hope that we can have disaster legislation and a GSA reform bill ready for the committee to consider in the first half of this year.

I have no doubt about your intention. The problem is that we have heard some of this before...

Thanks very much.

This Congress, my two top priorities are going to be public buildings reform and disaster legislation.

I look forward to building on our bipartisan record of accomplishments from last Congress.

These were major accomplishments, and I thank everyone who was involved in them.

Well, as someone who spent only a total of 1 year as a volunteer teacher in a volunteer program, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, my placement was in north Philadelphia. I really could have used a program like the one that you described.

the Stafford Act doesn't come close to bringing people back to where they were before a disaster.

I have real concerns and real skepticism, which I know we have talked about.

I find that fascinating in the context of these folks, the Iranians in particular, that have obfuscated.

I think there is something that we can do. Time is money when it comes to rebuilding.

I won't support it, and I wanted to explore some of it with you in the time we have.

So if we, in essence, help educate a workforce that the private sector needs in order to deal with the human capital requirements in the global economy and, at the same time, help more middle-class families have greater resources to help…

I've tried to be, as a strong supporter of the ACA, I've tried to examine and to support reasonable changes to the law.

Eliminating the employer mandate would not reduce insurance coverage significantly.

Increasing the full-time hours to 40 hours a week is a regressive measure that would negatively impact minority Americans.

We don't want to, by making a change, adversely impact or put at risk more folks than have some kind of stress right now.

We created five working groups, all assigned to study different areas of tax reform and come up with proposals.