I thank Chairman Scott for allowing me the time. I rise today in support of H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act. I am grateful for the bipartisan collaboration to produce this legislation that makes commonsense improvements to…

How do you think we can do that, be there for all the people that do look to it, when you have got like the Medicare trust fund that completely goes bust here in 4.

For as many people, in my short time here, that come to the Federal Government, expect it to have its house in order.

It seems out of proportion.

in May of 2013, one of my constituents, Bob Evans from Lawrence County, was placed on the kidney transplant list. His particular kidney ailment was hereditary, meaning family members who might have been a match could not donate. So Bob was…

The biggest issue I hear--and I was one of them as an employer because my company had 15 employees for a long, long time before it was large enough to where we can afford the overhead of providing any type of retirement to our employees.

Senator Klobuchar and I have a bill called the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow's Workforce Act that would simply say with that tool, give it to businesses to train kids in those skill sets.

There`s no question the Constitution prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race. That`s not even up for debate. And I condemn racism in any form at all levels and by any states, entities or individuals.

If you`re not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you`re not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too. I think that`s hypocritical. We`re better off having states manifest their points of view, rather than…

I believe it is real close to 18 percent benefit cuts.

I wish we had more than five minutes on the initial questioning here, but---when I look at anything, when you have got a problem you are dealing with, you know, I want to make sure that we are not trying to fix something that is not…

Senator Braun, we just do not have the political will to do it.

The idea that we want to commandeer something else again at the Federal level.

It really begs the question of why do we want more Federal Government to be involved in any of this.

Childcare is something that I think employers definitely are trying to find what the right solution is.

Currently, every additional dollar we spend here, we borrow it, and 30 percent of our budget in general is borrowed.

Just briefly--I am curious. Noise mitigation impact on air traffic efficiency, our committee has strongly supported efforts to improve the efficiency of air traffic management with performance-based navigation.

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