This has never been about politics. The fight to repeal and replace Obamacare has always been about people.

When I first got on this committee in 2005, we tackled issues related to the PBGC.

The Center for American Progress reported last year the nationwide compliance cost for proposals similar to yours would be 8.5 billion. Do you think that is a reasonable estimate?

Well, how can the Department put forward a regulatory proposal without understanding the financial impact and how can the Congress and the public be expected to evaluate its wisdom without such information?

For anybody who is taught, we all know that it is so important to teach at the level that the students are able to perform.

If school districts are forced to change teacher hiring policies and somehow find the legal and contractual authority to do so in order to comply with the proposal, school districts, rather than school principals will assume more authority…

the information being presented here comes from folks that live in an alternate universe where they have never worked in the private sector.

Easter Seals cannot afford to pay overtime and the children with disabilities that we serve are the ones that will suffer the most.

Regardless of your position on the issue of abortion, the law is the law and it must be followed.

I very much disagree that this is only a hearing about women's reproductive rights.

As far as I know, everybody getting a four year degree wants a vocation, therefore, my attitude is all education is vocational education.