On the recordJanuary 20, 2011
I wonder if folks are doing the same listening in their district that I'm doing in my district. We are here today to respond to exactly what folks have been asking for. Now to give credit where credit is due, last year before the last Congress expired, Democrats and Republicans came together to extend for 1 year, and I would have liked to have seen it extended longer, but to extend for 1 year the tax cuts that our small business men and women were demanding. But the second part of the indecision that was there in the small business community, of the anxiety that was there, the uncertainty that was there, is what's going to happen with my health care cost. We've only gotten one-half of it done. We've gotten it passed in the House, but we've still got to take it to the Senate and we've still got to take it to the White House. I told folks throughout my campaign that I thought the President identified exactly the right two health care challenges, rising costs and access, and then came up with exactly the wrong solutions to those problems.
