Mark DeSaulnier: “I'm sorry that many moral, ethical people who are in public service have to go through this.”

When ERISA was enacted in 1974, Congress made its intent clear. The law's primary purpose is to 'protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans, and their beneficiaries.'

George W. Bush signed a landmark Parity Act, and since then as many as three-and-a-half individual people applying for behavioral health under their health plan, which they have paid for and is required to be equally distributed under the…

So, all of those things, I just wanted to clear up, and thank you, Mr. LaMalfa, and the chairman, for letting me talk.

Those employees worked with their employers for their success, and for the consumers' and investors' success.