Todd Rokita: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I also thank the gentleman for his leadership. We were pleased to welcome you to…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I also thank the gentleman for his leadership. We were pleased to welcome you to Indiana, and I know you get that same kind of welcome all over the Nation. The gentleman from Minnesota, I think, has done an excellent job in making sure that this issue not only was formulated the right way, not only was formulated in a bipartisan way, but is now on the verge of going through committee and coming to the floor so we can take action. What action are we speaking of? There is an insidious tax that was put in the new health care law, a law colloquially referred to as ObamaCare. It is a 2.3 percent tax on innovation. I often get asked in Indiana's Fourth District and in other places around the State: How do we stay competitive? Why are you letting jobs go overseas? I am the first to point out that to succeed in this country, to succeed in this Nation, if we are to be prosperous--to maintain and increase our prosperity in the 21st century--we have got to stay a step or two or five ahead of our competition. In Indiana, we're not competing with people in Fort Wayne or in Jeffersonville or in Terre Haute. We're competing with people from places that we can barely pronounce, meaning not in the United States.…”