But you would admit that there are 2.4 million new private sector jobs since the health care law was signed?

I would again like to thank the panel for obviously a lot of time preparing for this morning and very, very good testimony.

The middle class of this country has seen a lot of dramatic changes in the last couple years.

Half the people in this country surveyed this year said the American dream is either dead or on life support.

This committee, this majority has not spent 1 hour on that proposal in the last month.

And the Affordable Care Act does provide an answer.

That is the problem we should be talking about, unemployment.

We talked about two Americans today. And we didn't talk about one American. We talked about the American who has a $33,000 a month drug bill who is hemophiliac, which is just stunning.

Would more people have jobs if we stopped the layoffs of police officers and teachers?

If we don't have the right people, if we can't recruit and retain the right people, this is not going to work.

You can't decide where to allocate your resources if you don't know where they are going already.

I hear that we are all moving in the same direction, which is good.