It is obvious that working families and the middle class need more opportunities to save.

The situation for mine workers gets worse with every passing day, and this, Mr. Chairman and colleagues, is another public policy emergency.

We created a health care system after World War II that was completely tethered to the employer, and that was because we had to.

What we do about these pension systems.

We should implement a number of the common-sense bipartisan reforms that Senator Crapo and I recommended.

I am introducing a bill to strengthen the saver's credit so it does more for the people who need the most help.

I want to ensure that everybody has a chance to get ahead.

Finally, we need to expand Social Security.

Barely more than half of American workers have access to a retirement savings plan through their employer.

We must address the retirement emergencies poised to devastate far too many workers.

My view on tax policy is, you want to give everybody in America the opportunity to get ahead.

We must not let that come to pass, and we ought to be addressing that too in a bipartisan way.

The bottom line for Oregon workers is going to be, when you get a job, you are going to get a retirement account, and you can begin to save.

It fell victim to this totally avoidable financial crunch and announced last October that it was closing, due, in large part, to the inability of the Congress to set politics aside and work together on a bipartisan basis to improve the law.

This committee now has begun to work in a bipartisan way.

Right out of the gate, CO-OP funding was cut by two-thirds.

Congress denied the ability to move resources that would help new CO-OPs weathering growing pains to continue serving consumers.

Even though the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act multiple times, the political battles have continued, and CO-OPs are one of the big targets.

The Affordable Care Act is not going to be repealed.

I am very hopeful that Mr. Slavitt's nomination can be moved as quickly as possible.

I do not buy that, and I will let Chairman Hatch speak for himself, but I know he very much wants this committee to work in a bipartisan way.

The United States is not going back to the dark days when health care was reserved for the healthy and the wealthy.

Even though the Supreme Court has upheld the ACA multiple times, the political battles have continued, and CO-OPs are one of the big targets.

Democrats and Republicans should come together to fix it, and I've been proud to work with Chairman Hatch and Senators Isakson and Warner.

I indicated in my opening statement that I think part of this is the debate about startups generally, startups in America.