40 percent of providers will become unprofitable by 2050 and therefore go out of business.

I want to make it clear: I am not proposing that we change all the current policies, but I think this does give us a very clear indication of the order of magnitude.

I hope this Congress will come together and do it in a way that makes sense.

I want to wish our colleague, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, our very best in her recovery and make sure she knows that she will be missed.

We need transparency on the actions of the PBGC and the administration regarding the treatment of the Delphi salaried retirees.

When we are already in a fragile economy with a 9-percent unemployment rate, they are talking about job losses of a million and a half, which would increase that unemployment rate up over 10 percent.

I think we have to have some real understanding of what we are doing here. And is this really what we want to do, given the risks that we see facing us around the world?

In order to avoid these large cuts and the resulting job losses, we're going to have to stop repeating ideological talking points and address our budget problems comprehensively.

If we are serious about not cutting large amounts of funding from the defense budget, something else has to give.

In order to avoid drastic job losses caused by cuts to our military and other important programs, revenue must be on the table.

Sequestration would have a similar impact on American workers in cutting other non-entitlement spending.