Joe Courtney

Again, I ask that the 'AP Fact Check, ObamaCare is not in a Death Spiral' be entered into the record.

To the extent, again, looking forward, there is uncertainty regarding the future of the subsidies, that is what is making insurers skittish about actually participating in the 2018 enrollment period.

That is not an indicator of a death spiral.

Again, I think there are a lot of people who are serious, people who actually do know the complexity of the health insurance market, that could address these problems.

So, again, there are solutions here to deal with some of the instability that exists in the market, but, frankly, that is not what we are hearing from the Republican majority. It is too bad.

If you're looking at what's good for this country, what's good for Americans, there is no doubt that unionization has brought up wages, has increased people having pensions.

There is absolutely no data whatsoever that supports the notion that there is a proliferation of microunits.

The narrative that started this hearing, which is that somehow these union rules, unionization rules are somehow acting as a drag on the U.S. economy.

We're not introducing kids to a vo-tech training. It's cheaper, the loans are lower, and they actually get a job when they get out from under that or out from school.

Actually, there's a study from Vanderbilt that says they spent 11 percent of the University's entire budget complying with regulations.

The government is basically making a profit off the differential is just totally unacceptable.

There really is just no logic in terms of protecting the taxpayers with that kind of an arrangement.

Restoring private sector participation in Federal student lending is really not the best path to move forward on.

We're about 3 years late in terms of a higher ed reauthorization. So hopefully this is a good sign we're going to move forward.

We don't do it by throwing out accountability

The charter school track record in terms of that issue of racial isolation, frankly, is just far inferior

Trying to have kids learn in a more diverse classroom is, I think, something that the Supreme Court recognized

There are public schools that are doing an outstanding job out there

I would like to applaud you for your bipartisan efforts to eliminate the Cadillac tax.

I mean, there is, again, a strong feeling that this is a really totally inefficient way of trying to accomplish some type of goal, which is really just to shift costs to businesses and employees.

In my district, which we've driven the uninsured rate down to 3.6 percent...

The so-called Russian bear is back on the prowl and being exceedingly active now.

Gentlemen, in my estimation, we were attacked recently by Russia when it determined that it was in its national interests to try to intervene in our domestic elections.

Nonetheless, it is undeniable that what China has done in the South China Sea is indefensible in terms of traditional maritime law.

And we have to help those Iraqis who--which is the bulk of the country--do not want to be dominated by Iran, do not want to become Lebanonized, and want to be able to determine their own future, free of undue influence in that regard.