I've seen a change in attitude--for example, in our military.

I don't think that it's wrong to try to do both things at the same time which is make sure that people get covered.

She said in her speech that what most inspired her about those books and about those American movies was the American dream.

But to put in your testimony that it's noncontroversial agreement is not accurate.

I have four words for Senator Al Franken and that is, Joe Mauer for Governor.

I think there are tremendous benefits to health care reform that weren't mentioned when you were talking about what you kind of call the meager benefits.

And it seems to me that if--ok, so, that's valuable. That's really valuable.

I believe it is non-controversial that the combination of guaranteed issue and community rating would raise average premiums.

I think it's actually on the face, evident, that there is controversy, isn't there?

But if you have a pre-existing condition-- one of the things that this health care reform would do, is say that an insurance company can't charge you more because you have pre-existing conditions.

My concern is that the Senate bill comes close to this situation because of the extremely weak enforcement of the individual mandate.

I respectfully cannot agree that a mandate with no penalty in the first year and a maximum penalty of $750 is 'strong.'

But with national health reform, we have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of millions of small business owners and their workers.

We know that this Health Reform bill will invest unprecedented resources in small businesses so that they can affordably cover their workers.

Therefore, we are recommending that the guarantee levels be increased.

However, over time the level of benefits for those plans that do fail--and there are plans that have gone that way...

In the middle of a recession, we are asking them to put more money aside for the pensions, and that is money that cannot be used to create jobs or invest in things.

Why is that and why should I be OK with that?