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At the end of the day, I hope, Madam Chairman, that you and your party will join us as we attempt to go back to the fundamental principle of this and that is to do no harm.

And this business about being able to keep your policy if you like your policy, that is all out the window.

One of the difficulties I have is that we keep getting reports that the cost of health care keeps going up, notwithstanding the fact that everybody was promised it would go down.

Madam Chairman, I cannot tell you how much I am an advocate for exactly what the Teamsters have said.

The problem is, it turns out that we were singing off of two different sheets of music.

The situation in America today is that it is just disgusting that the Federal Government having botched this as badly as it has.

That was a joke, I guess, at the time it was promoted.

Senator Landrieu will be interested to hear that they are talking about a 28.6 percent increase in Louisiana.

It is a shame and really an embarrassment for the United States of America when the Federal Government passes laws that create winners and losers in the marketplace.

Do you want to be shot or do you want to be hung, either way, you are going to have an Exchange.

Well, if it is such a good thing, why do we not go the other 4 percent of the way and exempt all business, 100 percent of businesses, from Obamacare?

96 percent of businesses, is that correct, are exempted from Obamacare?

When I first ran for this job back in 2008, America was focused on a real need to reform our health care system.

Well, thank you. I can identify with that a little bit. In previous years, we have worked on trying to help our small communities deal with their water infrastructure systems...

Thank you. And moving to the statistics that you gave us, 56 percent of the grants, I believe it was, went to communities with less than 100,000 and 40 percent less than 10,000.

Are you sure that the factors that are utilized there are properly balanced between rural and urban issues?

I appreciate the fact that the EPA is aware of this issue with regard to the disadvantage that small communities face in competing for these grants.

Thank you very much.