John Ensign: “This is a very important hearing today and I want to thank all of our witnesses who have taken the time out of their…”

We have to understand that small businesses do create jobs, and we are going to hurt job creation.

Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign is stepping down on May 3.

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.

The House bill needs to be the floor for what we accomplish out of this process. The House bill isn't nearly enough, and we cannot allow this process to capture a modest improvement in the name of compromise by watering it down to a…