John Tierney

This is an extraordinary gripe session, I guess, for the employers' labor bar.

The preemption discussion is a difficult one.

I feel your pain, as a former small-businessperson who represented a lot of small businesses, was a president of a local chamber of commerce.

I want to talk about what most health economists...thought was a bill that had in it almost every cost-containment provision.

Measures to inform patients and pay as to what the quality of health care providers, would that be something you would put in your bill?

Would you consider an exchange, a group of insurance companies that would participate and compete, that would lower costs with their competition, increase innovation, would that be something you would consider putting in your bill?

Promote wellness and prevention, provisions that do that, would you include those in your bill?

We are trying to make the private insurance companies more accountable for it, or at least provide some relief for consumers here.

I agree that our private insurance companies were jacking up our premiums over and over again.

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I understand that $10 million is $10 million, and that's a lot of money to each one of us individually and, of course, we should be concerned. It's not proportionately a lot in our $1.7 trillion budget. But I think the real number to look…

I thank you for raising that point that this is a two-step process. This part of the process, in fact, talks about whether we will have a policy that will enable us at some appropriate time to appropriate the money.

We are not appropriating the money now, and I think that's a debate for another day and another time if we decide whether we want to be fair to these people or put it off for some other time, but the total for that 15,593 people, according…

Today is an opportunity for this body to stand up for middle class families and small businesses. Today, by passing this bill, no family will have to worry that their 20-something-year-old child will have a serious condition and not be…

If my previous colleague thought that the Democrats were going to get slaughtered for passing this bill, a few of them would cut out of the herd and help pass it. But that's absolutely not the case. This year-long debate and the bipartisan…

Mr. Tierney. All right, we have heard that before. What do you think of that, Mr. Sydnor?

Mr. Tierney. Mr. Boback, do you want to add anything to that conversation? I think Mr. Gorton's credibility here is at risk so I want to caution you to that.

The red light, Mr. Connolly, has truly come on now.

Mr. Tierney. So who in your company do you think had that desire and then physically blocked them?

Mr. Tierney. Mr. Gorton, let me tell you that is how it looks from here. Disabuse us of that notion if you can.

we are also fortunate to have Congressman John Tierney as a leading member of the House Committee on Education and Labor

Mr. Tierney. Can you explain that a little bit for us.

It just sounds to me, General, that we're talking about having a choice. We can either pay for underperforming engines, or start over again and pay even more for engines that are designed properly.