obviously I will be brief. I was simply trying to engage the majority leader in a simple question. I will lay out the question here. I think it deserves an answer, not for me but for the American people. Last week I had written the majority leader noting that several press reports have stated that he has exempted much of his staff, specifically leadership staff, from ObamaCare, from the mandate of the ObamaCare statute that we and our staffs go to the exchanges for our health care. He has exempted much of his staff from that. So I laid out some specific and pertinent and important questions related to that in a letter to him dated December 10, last week. I have gotten no response. I obviously got no response this morning. In fact, he would not even yield for my question. I think that is unfortunate. It is unfortunate not because I personally deserve an answer, it is unfortunate because this is important. I think his constituents and the American people deserve an answer. So I restated those four specific questions in my letter. They are in my letter. I ask unanimous consent that the letter be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Hon. Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Office of the Senate Majority Leader, The Capitol, Washington, DC.…
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