David Vitter

You are right that Congress is not a small business. It is a large employer and it is treated completely differently than any other large employer and far better by being able to go to this exchange, the only large employer that is allowed…

If his employees go to the individual market, they will see an average premium increase of 54 percent.

Your bill, of course, guts be Affordable Care Act. Mine fixes it.

Hasn't that bar been lowered significantly?

So does everybody agree that those subcategories absolutely matter and we have a lot to learn from those specific subcategory conclusions?

In any of that future work, will the EPA commit to using actual measurement data from actual sites like the University of Texas study?

It appears EPA is also on the verge of getting sued again, probably in an attempt to force the Agency into additional regulations.

I also want to underscore how important it is that we talk about the University of Texas Environmental Defense Fund collaborative study.

A number of us are a little concerned about the very sort of backdoor way EPA has gone at regulating methane.

This is important because this activity, this oil and gas activity, and particularly fracking, is at the center of the biggest positive development in our economy in the last decade.

In a sense, the overall summary could be EPA was way off in terms of estimates about the fracking process.

I would specifically ask you to get those legitimate questions answered, including a list of Agency officials who have participated.

I will in a second. Again, I congratulate the House for doing exactly that, for doing exactly that. Again, I would point out, assuming the House does that and passes that tonight, the only significant difference between their package and…

I can guarantee, as somebody who was here and participating, that that would not have happened but for the deadline of the debt limit.

I do think it is important to be precise about what we are talking about and what we are not talking about.

I understand. I am not trying to trivialize this scenario. But I am trying to be more precise.

I thank the Senator. Does he acknowledge that he understands, as I do, that as this monstrosity goes into effect October 1 and as it has all of these really devastating impacts on individuals and small businesses, under a special illegal…

I don't understand that, I don't agree with that, I don't think that is a core conservative principle.

Putting such a structure back on a sustainable course is essential and it will restore confidence in the highway program.

A final question, I am running out of time.

I don't think it is fair or reasonable to expect middle class families to endure a net tax increase.

I guess this is to any or all of you. There is a pretty broad consensus that the gas tax is really not sustainable, middle and long-term.

I think he was asking for the same thing I was asking for, which is leadership.

I am not going to encourage that answer, but that is what I heard.

Many of us are willing to offer that help. We need your help as some of the experts involved.