John Larson

We are going to sit down with you and that plan that Mitt Romney submitted in Massachusetts that you then submitted that we called Obamacare.

I hope as a committee we can get beyond this notion of for the 63rd time we are going to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

I think sustainability and solvency are the key words here to restore trust in the American people.

The Congress, at the end of the day, should be about the vitality of ideas, and how we interact with those ideas.

What a great hearing this has been.

I hear this everywhere I go in my district, that this is the insurance I paid for.

I think one of the mistakes that we make is to refer to this as a tax instead of an insurance premium.

I look forward to future hearings.

I am anxious to hear from our panelists because I do think this is a great compromise.

I think Donald Trump is doing a pretty good job of that, Mr. Chairman.

This Committee has distinguished itself in doing, and that is working in a collaborative manner across the aisle.

I want to thank our panelists as well for being here, but I especially want to give kudos to our chairman.

We need to update and modernize hospice benefits. I mean this is something that has a transformational effect.

I have, I must say, real concerns about what we're going to do if we're going to start raising the retirement--the age of eligibility.

How can that be America? How can that be America? That I had someone tell me they're going to refuse their holiday bonus because they're being told by their government representative, 'You will lose your benefit.' We have to do better than…

I think we should be talking about it here in this Committee as well, because this should be something that this Committee that has--can be remembered by.

I would just say that--and Secretary Lew, thank you so much for your service to the country in two administrations.

I believe this is called the Federal Insurance Contribution Act. Is it not, in fact, a premium payment that individuals make into the Treasury?

We are heartened, clearly and always, by the standard-bearer of our party, Hillary Clinton, standing up for expanding Social Security.

I think that is what the American people want. They are tired of this back-and-forth.

You are a model of how we believe that the relationship between the executive and legislative branches should work.

The stories of spoiled food shipments, loss of jobs, and bureaucratic indifferences embody the arrogance of an agency gone wild.

I commend Mr. Zeldin for his leadership on this issue.

If we didn't act immediately, that our entire economy was going to implode.

I was not present for rollcall vote 674. If I had been present for this vote, I would have voted: ``nay'' on rollcall vote No. 674.