Mark DeSaulnier: “I appreciate the fact that we can respect our differences but work to a common goal.”

It is unfortunate there are--there is work we can do with ERISA, clearly, but being as partisan as you just introduced 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.'

We already have a universal health care system in this country, it is just really bad.

I am concerned by the proposals to take us backward.