We must also consider the impact on the communities that are downwind.

According to the title of this hearing, we are going to hear about the perspective of coal communities, but let me assure you, the concerns of residents in the coal communities of Kentucky do not stop after they open their utility bill.

We knew that then. And yet coal-mining employment still increased from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

a huge number have already done so, actually have enrolled in affordable insurance for the first time

the experience in Kentucky has been extraordinarily successful

While I hope today is the last day of the senseless government shutdown, I want to share a part of a letter from one of my constituents, Lindsay Smith, a medical student and 2nd lieutenant in the Air Force's Health Professions Scholarship…

The last thing Congress needs is more special interest candidates who don't answer to the American people; and yet this morning, the Senate minority leader and his big money allies in the Republican Party once again asked the Supreme Court…

nothing in the Affordable Care Act would force an employer to change their coverage

The law is not designed to enable employers to obstruct union representation.

So we believe that you grow the economy from the middle class out.

As a reminder when we go back to the year that this law was being debated in 2009, premiums for businesses were going up in many places as high as 38 percent.

what the Affordable Care Act did was allow us to make this business move