Donald would have been delighted to be here with you this morning.

I come to this hearing this morning in a very melancholy sense knowing it is the first time we are gathering without Donald's presence.

Thank you for the role that you played in turning around a situation where from the bottom of the recession the nation's employers have created 3.9 million private sector jobs.

Across the building today the Budget Committee is marking up a Republican budget that has a 48 percent cut by one measure in job training funds. What do you think that would do to the economic recovery?

Sometimes the quietest voices are the ones that have the greatest impact.

Employers could see even more savings through the elimination of pre-existing condition underwriting, medical loss ratio standards, states successfully combating unreasonable premium increases.

More than 32,000 young adults in Pennsylvania may now have coverage through their parent's health plan because of the law.

This law takes control of health care away from the multibillion dollar insurance industry and returns it to American families where it belongs.

Recognizing that reforming this country's health care system could wait no longer, congressional Democrats passed and President Obama signed the historic Affordable Care Act into law nearly two years ago.

Nearly 7.7 million Pennsylvania residents can no longer be subjected to a lifetime limit cap on their health coverage.

Nearly 680,000 Pennsylvanians no longer face the uncertainty that their health insurer can drop their health coverage when they need it the most.