Erik Paulsen

We cannot allow HHS to circumvent Congress and undermine welfare work requirements. I urge my colleagues to support the resolution.

I am concerned about the pending cuts to the Medicare Advantage program and the likelihood that millions of seniors will be pushed out of their health care plans.

I will just say that, whether it's a company like a Medtronic or an agricultural-based company like a Cargill, which is based in my district in Minnesota as well, clearly there is the opportunity to sell American knowing that 95 percent of…

S. 1832 provides an opportunity for Federal leaders to enact an equitable solution that allows for a predictable, simple, and streamlined approach for Iowa and other states to consistently enforce sales tax laws.

The Marketplace Fairness Act would level the playing field and fairly apply sales tax laws across every type of retailer.

This debate is not about imposing new taxes. It is not. Instead, it's just allowing states to collect taxes they are currently owed under existing law but are being systematically avoided.

If Congress does nothing, we'll end up with states forced to raise income or property taxes to offset the growing losses of sales tax revenue.

I believe passage of S. 1832 will level the playing field for Iowa businesses and lessens the tax compliance burden for all citizens.

I think one way we can help protect, certainly seniors, is to remove that Social Security number from that Medicare ID card.

We have actually made this new health care law more and more expensive ironically.

I think it is important that we keep employee ownership actually in mind as we move forward through larger comprehensive tax reform.

We are not going to pass one bill that is going to address one side of it and then you can count on us passing another bill that is going to catch up with it.

I just want to thank the gentleman for raising the issue about ensuring that TANF recipients can access their benefits in a variety of locations. I will say the bill that we are considering here on the floor today requires States to block…

I thank the gentleman for being a leader. When folks think of States like California, they think of high technology and medical devices, but it's the investors who have a large component in States like California that invest in these…

As you mentioned, I think one of the things that folks don't often recognize, the medical device industry is high-value manufacturing. Boy, I think of a State like California and the high- value manufacturing that exists there. I visited…

I thank the gentleman again for his leadership and for really standing up for Pennsylvania companies and understanding this is an American success story, as he outlined. He is actually a coauthor of some bills that are there to streamline…

I thank the gentleman again for his leadership. I just want to mention too, you had mentioned all the authors of this bill that are trying to repeal this onerous tax. There are actually 204 Members now, Mr. Speaker, that want to repeal…

I thank the chairman and the ranking member, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I know the gentleman was speaking earlier in opposition to the bill, and perhaps there is no opposition to the amendment. I have no further requests for time, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Many of my constituency companies are reporting that the FDA reviewers make new arbitrary demands late in the product review process.

It's getting harder and harder to bring lifesaving devices to the marketplace in the United States because of a lack of consistency, predictability and transparency in the Food and Drug Administration's premarket review processes.

I am worried we are going to go back to the days when seniors in Minnesota, for instance, don't have the same options as seniors in Miami or in New York City.

I want to make sure that the new law does not provide any additional layers of regulation that would stifle, I guess, innovation and raise costs.

One of the fundamental shortcomings I believe of the health care law as well is the failure to recognize that in some States like Minnesota we have a pretty low uninsured rate and a well-functioning marketplace.

And, Dr. Berwick, I think this is essential to actually get to the crux of the problem.