I appreciate that.

I believe I speak for the entire committee when I say that our commitment to this goal is bipartisan and unwavering.

We cannot let that happen under our watch. This is our watch.

I would ask that Ms. Speier be given an extra minute and a half so that she can clear up some of what you just said which we on this side of the aisle consider to be misleading.

What happens to the people in your States who are sick and cannot get care?

As I conclude, the truth is that nobody really believes today's hearing was intended to help make the Affordable Care Act work better.

There is a systematic effort by some Republican officials to obstruct implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans want to eliminate health coverage for tens of millions of Americans, return the keys to the insurance companies, and go back to the days of discrimination against people like Ms. Laury with preexisting conditions.

This is the law. Hello, this is the law. It has been passed.

This is intimidation and another effort to sabotage.

Everyone knows what this hearing is really about: trying to end Obamacare.

This week House Republicans are threatening to shut down, shut down the entire Government unless the Affordable Act is completely de-funded.

The President gave them that leeway. A lot of the problem that we have in the law is because of things that happened when we were trying to pass it.

I tell the story about when we voted for the Affordable Care Act I got to the Floor of the House four hours early. I sat on the front row and I had only one prayer. I said, God, don't let me die before I vote for it. And the reason why I…

But that does not mean we scrap it and throw it out, because people will die.

Now you are stretching the ability here. We would like to be involved more.

I would just challenge one statement. You are familiar, I am familiar with this project.

It was the wrong site and the community had an opportunity under NEPA to make that case.