Chris Stewart: “I thank my good friend, Mr. Messer. I've been blessed to do a lot of fun things in my life, to do a lot of interesting…”

“I thank my good friend, Mr. Messer. I've been blessed to do a lot of fun things in my life, to do a lot of interesting jobs. I was an Air Force pilot for 14 years. That was maybe the funnest thing I've ever done. I was a writer. I've written 15 books. That was very satisfying. But the hardest job, without question the hardest job I've ever done was to be a small business owner. As a small business owner, you fight every day to make ends meet. You care about your employees. Your employees become your family. One of the funnest things to do is to hire new people, but one of the hardest things to do, and one of the most, frankly, discouraging things you have to do is when you have to lay people off. But that is exactly what has happened in the business that I owned, that is exactly what is happening now, and that is what is going to continue to happen. Jobs are being killed by the implementation of ObamaCare. And that's not a statistic. That isn't some government projection. It isn't some estimation from CBO. That is a fact. It is a reality. ObamaCare is killing economic activity. ObamaCare is killing jobs. And it's only going to get worse. {time} 1940 There is a reason that the Democrats--and I'm not talking about the Republicans; I'm talking about Democratic leaders--are calling ObamaCare a train wreck. There is a reason why Nancy Pelosi said, We have to pass this bill before we can find out what's in it.…”