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How do we improve retirement not for Elon Musk, but for kind of the folks who are at the low end.

Thank you, Chair Sanders. A little odd, the focus today seems to be promoting the defined benefits system.

If the Chair truly wishes to expand the use of defined benefit plans, I am so happy to discuss reforms similar to the ones that have been very successful in the individual employer space, and pass them, to stabilize the entire defined…

Let's make it easier for the defined contribution to include them.

We will need something bipartisan to pass with 60 votes.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following letter be printed in the Congressional Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association…

Madam President, this week, the HELP Committee--the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee--will be holding a vote on the renomination of Julie Su for Secretary of Labor. At the direction of the chair, this committee vote is…

I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we truly live in an interesting time in our country when Americans watch this and they see two lone conservative Republicans, two members of the House Freedom Caucus, standing in an…

I thank my friend from South Carolina for yielding. I know my friend is not leaving any time soon, but we have appreciated both our friendship and leadership along the way, and we will miss him when he is gone. There is a lot of work left…

Mr. President, Abraham Lincoln, when he opened up the Gettysburg Address, said: Few will little note, nor long remember what I say here today. As I rise as the Super Bowl is about to begin, I realize that most people are looking for a view…

somebody is paying. Yes, insurance is making it more affordable. Medicaid is making it more affordable. Medicare is making it more affordable.

If you have got an initial high price, no matter what your value-based purchasing arrangement is, it could still be something which society could not afford.

If you are telling voters you are going to do something when you know at the get go you have no legislative solution which emerges, and that is why folks don't trust.

without the profit incentive, you will not get the innovation.

clearly, patents are part of the free market system, is the way that you protect intellectual property, and you incent creativity.

Let's make a difference for the people whom we represent--for those patients in hospitals who I once treated who otherwise would not have access to care.