Rising health care costs remain a significant challenge for workers and job creators nationwide.

I think we should--I think we absolutely should look at a program, and I agree with the idea of increasing access, increasing quality, lowering costs, and trying to cover all Americans.

I am going to ask my colleagues here to support the bill I was over testifying, which is a bill of mine to build a memorial for Desert Storm/Desert Shield veterans.

People do not understand and properly used, a nurse practitioner can be very helpful and provide an extender for you as a physician.

There are more narcotic overdose deaths in this country than are car wrecks now.

There is no way on this planet that I would sign a narcotics prescription for somebody I had never seen.

I certainly think, as I have stated before, that proper supervision of nurse practitioners is a way to extend quality of care to veterans and to anybody.

There are ways to do that now without being fraudulent and convincing yourself that you are providing good care without proper metrics and supervision.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said this mandate will impose a $140 billion tax increase on employers.

If we are going to put Americans back to work and advance smarter reforms that will lower healthcare costs, we must first repeal or dismantle the President's misguided law.

I believe we can do better than misguided policies that destroy full-time jobs.

I have never seen a Republican or a Democrat heart attack in my life. I have never operated on a Republican or Democrat cancer in my life.

This morning I was told by my employer, a home health care provider in Albion, Michigan that I am being cut from my 38 hours to 28 hours because of Obamacare.

The only thing bipartisan about the Affordable Care Act was the vote to not accept it.

The House will continue to demand permanent relief for all Americans.

I can absolutely assure you what will happen is with these very rich subsidies, employees and employers will figure out to drop those.

The delay provides workplaces a temporary reprieve from an onerous mandate; however, it does not alter the fact the law is fatally flawed.

I think the Chairman brought up something a minute ago, that what we have done in this country is we have taken a set of laws and we have thrown the common sense out the window.

The best government in the world is local government, and that is one of the reasons that we are here today.

What alternative can you offer to these providers besides bankruptcy?

I recognize the critical importance of Medicaid home care providers to enable Medicaid beneficiaries to remain in the community.

It is beyond belief how complex--needlessly and how complex this program has become.

I think it is extremely important for us to maintain and follow the Constitution of this country, which is the law of the land.

So, I think we have a much bigger issue here of the constitutionality of this.

A soldier expects to be at risk when they are on the battlefield. They do not expect to be at risk when at a VA hospital.