I continue to hear from the small businesses in my State that they are just being crushed by rising health care costs.

I'm proud that in Colorado we've already had 11 hearings in our State to talk about how to set up the exchanges.

The States themselves would decide, not the Federal Government, but the States would decide to come together, in those instances, you could have a marketplace that extended across State lines for insurance.

there is a nagging concern that they will always believe that we will be because of the sheer scale of housing, the importance of it to our economy.

With this hearing, we start the difficult process of reforming our housing finance system and reducing the Government's role in the secondary mortgage market.

I actually want to go all the way back to the very beginning and the Ranking Member's conversation with you, Secretary Geithner, about taking the politics out of this, which I am all for.

I think we are just subjecting our economy to enormous risk here by overregulation.

I do think we are forcing it out of the United States to areas where it will be in the shadows and it will be less regulated.

I think that is well put, and Senator Roberts said at the beginning that he hopes this is the first of several, and I agree with that.

I would encourage it, just because I think our financial stability is so closely linked to our fiscal stability.

This practice known as transitional care, has shown a reduction of up to 50 percent in places with high re-admission rates; and I'm very proud that this was homegrown in the State of Colorado based on work in Mesa County and Denver.