So, in keeping with the spirit of the meeting, let me first start by thanking Cathy McMorris Rodgers, as well as our colleagues, Tom Reed and Kurt Schrader, on introducing H.R. 3244, which is Providing Innovative Care for Complex Cases…

The sad reality is today that there are too many Americans that are still living in poverty and lack the right job opportunities.

In my home State of Connecticut, the AETNA leads the way in terms of coming out and recognizing what we have to do with wages.

I never cease to be amazed, sitting through one of these, how you come up with constructive ideas.

One of the cycles we need to break, quite frankly, is the way we get information and the way we do public hearings.

I do think taking this Committee on the road and going to people's districts... would put Congress in a better light.

this program's going to be there for them, for 50 cents a week if you are making $50,000.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for conducting this hearing.

It better be half full.

It is essential, especially to a program.

no one ends up retiring into poverty, especially women who have worked and paid their quarters.

Social Security is an insurance problem.

Mr. O'Carroll, thank you for your incredible service to your country and the responsible job that you are doing.

The last time we have done anything with this program was in 1983.

Like Mr. Tiberi, I intend to talk about three bills and then provide written testimony on others, including the bill that he mentioned, which includes extending the R&D tax credits, which has been received with overwhelming popularity…

It is the Volunteer Responder Incentive and Protection Act, a bill that many in the Committee--many on this Committee support.

Now, back in January we wrote you about the importance of quick implementation, and as you know, our bill would allow those who previously paid taxes on their restitution to be able to file for a refund.

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.

This is nonsense. This is why the public hates us.

Let us get together and work. Let us go into the subcommittees that require us to examine what aspects of health care we can do to help the patient out.

Obamacare has done a lot for people.

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 want to thank my colleague from Massachusetts for yielding this time. And I say, with a note of pride, that Lowell, Massachusetts, served and continues to serve as a model for urban national parks upon which we based Coltsville becoming…

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

I look forward to future hearings.