Thank you once again, Chairman Roe, and members of the committee, for your interest in learning more about the needs we want on reform.

I have an appreciation of small business owners' concerns and challenges in buying health insurance, which is why I speak in support today of the Affordable Care Act.

I'm committed to repealing this government takeover of healthcare.

Well, those incentives stop in 2016. Another thing, when I look at that, why would you have written a bill where if someone's salary goes up a little bit, the incentive goes down.

Why shouldn't those decisions be made?

There are countless issues in the 111th Congress, 115 of them this year. Not one time was I asked about anything in the 2,500 page bill, which I read in its entirety.

How can you discuss overall medical reform when you don't even discuss for one minute tort reform, medical malpractice and defensive medicine?

A lot of kids in poorer areas can't do that, and they shouldn't be held hostage in poor-performing schools forever because they only have one chance to get that education.

I think the control needs to be back at the local level.

It hasn't been a top-down approach; this was a bottom-up approach.

I am absolutely committed so that every young person in this country gets a quality education and can enjoy the fruits of their education, as I have.

By 2014 every school will be failing and every teacher will be failing.