It has not caused an economic catastrophe. In fact, in the last 5 years, the U.S. has seen the longest stretch in job growth ever, adding 12 million jobs, cutting the unemployment rate in half.

In the 5 years since enactment, 12 million jobs created in that period, 60 consecutive months of private-sector job growth.

Anyone proposing changes to the ACA, repealing the ACA, altering it in any way, should make sure that that is a central plank, because that was a moral failing, in my judgment.

The uninsured rate for young adults ages 19 to 34 has declined sharply.

It has not--I repeat, not, and this is particularly important as we go into the budget debates we are going to have, Mr. Chairman--added to the deficit.

Can we agree that a critical infrastructure and educational excellence in a globally challenged economy are incredible elements as well to future prosperity?

I find this particular activity absolutely reprehensible and un-American, companies that benefit from our intellectual property laws...

I rise to address the same issue Senator Brown raised, the issue of trade, and I thank him and commend him for not only his leadership on this issue for many years, his time in the U.S. House of Representatives and now in the Senate for…

I am out of time, but if our remaining witnesses can do fifteen seconds each or submit something in writing.

I think that holding hearings like we are having today is critical to getting the word out to the American public...

I rise today to talk about the nomination that will be before the entire Senate next week, the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the Attorney General of the United States of America, and to urge all of my Senate colleagues to quickly…

just changing the default will make a big difference and will contribute significantly to these contributions

the problems in Social Security are the problems of income inequality and of the fact that we do not require Social Security contributions on income above, right now, $118,000.

If we simply had kept 1980's-level income equality from now to the present, we would have a far, far stronger Social Security system.

I guess I would ask, starting with you and going down with your colleague from Treasury and others...

the income inequality that we have seen that now goes back to the American Gilded Age has had a tough effect on Social Security

I appreciate the hearing and want to thank the witnesses for your testimony, your presence, and your commitment to stopping this crime.

This shift means that the employee rather than the employer makes all the decisions and bears all the risks.

It's probably the worst example of pennywise and pound-foolish that we can imagine.

I have to ask what if down the road, because we didn't make the investment, because Congress failed, would the next Emily Whitehead be saved?

I really appreciate you raising Emily Whitehead as an example of what we need to have more of.

I wish to express support for Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and to express the need for greater Federal investment in medical research. I regret that severe weather prevented me from doing this last week, which was Multiple Sclerosis…

These are deadly serious issues, the ones that Dr. Collins just spoke to about the impact of funding diminution.

I rise to speak about the National Labor Relations Board and the reforms that have been proposed in the new rule. I rise first of all to provide by way of a predicate or background what happened in 1935 when the National Labor Relations…

We need to do more of this for all of us to get to a resolution or even a consensus on tax reform.