Mark Kelly

I am just really concerned that a country that is going to have record revenue still can't come close, can't come close, to paying its spendings.

There is a need for pro-growth tax reform? And, without a doubt, everybody says: Yes, there is.

I can't overemphasize how important this is because, as you know, Secretary, once we lose that cotton infrastructure, you just can't go back and re-get it there.

Quite frankly, I don't mind spending money as long as it is a positive return on the investment for taxpayers.

I know both of you come from a lot of experience in the private sector.

It is better to do a controlled burn and put too much smoke or pollution in the air than to have an out of control wildfire.

None of this makes sense to me economically. Why would anybody stay in the insurance business to lose money?

They are not going to lose, by the way, their insurance.

I don't like to include Medicaid as insurance because Medicaid is a welfare program.

If we are talking about this and if a big part of the individual mandate was going to cover the cost of all these things, the question is did it work? Is there anybody of the three of you that could say this was--it was well intended? I am…

It is the low participation rate that is killing us.

Are we getting them ready for any jobs that are out there?

The number one problem that people have who are trying to hire people is finding people who are qualified to do the jobs that are available today.

A dynamic and robust economy is the only thing that fixes this, right?

Get people back to work. Give them a chance to get up in the morning and go to work.

I really don't understand how people can indulge in deficit spending, not year after year but decade after decade.

The private sector can't possibly be run the way a government does.

It is about the money we spend that is used inefficiently and ineffectively.

It is our ability to stick to the message and stick on course and make sure that we fight this to the very end.

I spent almost every day at town halls and those type of things with local folk and small businesses.

I have yet to have a small business person sit at that table and say that they felt that we did not have any effect.

The real elephant in the room is the fact that we don't have enough revenue to continue to build a business model that would make sense in the private sector.

Now, I am understanding some of the people that I represent, some of their increases are going to be 38 to 40 percent.

When you take in $1 in premium and pay out $1.20 in claims, that is not a sustainable business model.

I come from the private sector, and I was not here whenever the healthcare law was debated and then passed, but I can tell you as a person who actually provides insurance for the people that I work with, we have seen premiums--this is for…