Kevin Brady

This 1-year reprieve does not solve the problems of local businesses struggling to comply with ObamaCare.

Let me be clear. This Committee intends to get an explanation and will plan on Treasury officials appearing at a date in the near future.

It is time for the Administration to explain to the American people why it's acceptable to grant this delay, while at the same time taking no action whatsoever to provide any relief from the individual mandate.

A 1-year delay will not undo this damage. I want to know why, after repeated assurances that everything was on track and that no more deadlines would be missed, that the Administration has taken this action.

The employer mandate is a flawed provision that has resulted in lost jobs, fewer hours and a loss of wages, while doing nothing at all to make health insurance more affordable--which is what individuals, employers and workers want and need.

The Obama Administration's recent decision to delay the information reporting requirements and penalties associated with the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act until 2015.

You need to understand one thing. The Ways and Means Committee is going to get to the truth, good or bad.

We are not going to stop until we learn the whole truth.

Until the IRS proves that it can responsibly manage its current funds, the IRS will not see one more dime in taxpayer funding.

Your job isn't to cover up, it is to open up this agency.

Who initiated the targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny based on their political beliefs?

This report is a sham. I would call it a whitewash, but it is too thin and unsubstantial to even meet that description.

We need real reforms, and they must be implemented so the American people can have a restored faith that they have a government that works for them, not against them.

I hope we heed your warning to act sooner rather than later to take the meaningful steps to save and extend the life of Medicare.

I challenge my colleagues to think bigger. Let's figure out how to ensure Medicare is an efficient program that provides a quality benefit to those who rely on it.

Medicare is important, it is in trouble, common sense dictates that we act now.

We can't wish this problem away. Medicare is going broke too quickly.

Today no Member of Congress can honestly look a 52-year-old American in the eye and assure them that Medicare will be there for them when they retire because the trustees report has just confirmed that.

And if sincere concerns about Medicare's financial condition are summarily dismissed as alarmist rhetoric by some Members of Congress, then why can't Medicare pay its medical bills for seniors in just 13 short years?

The simple truth is that Medicare remains in deep financial trouble and the time to act is now.

While Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund has been given a brief 2 year reprieve before going bankrupt, that doesn't mean Congress has two more years to act.

The 2013 trustees report continues to make it abundantly clear that Medicare's financial future is in trouble.

If Medicare is just fine, as some claim, then why the Medicare trustees issue and Medicare funding warning for the seventh straight year?

The conclusions of the Medicare trustees are deeply troubling and should serve as a call to action for those who want to save Medicare.

Is this still America? Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might to harass and intimidate and threaten an average American who only wants her voice and their voices heard?