David Roe

Well, I mean, if you don't know what the problem is, you can't fix it.

I think that we are going to work to make that happen, to come to fruition.

Without congressional action, this crisis would have forced businesses to close their doors and lay off workers.

Today's hearing represents the next step in a long process to strengthen the retirement security of America's workers by reforming the multiemployer pension system.

Well, I think we mentioned this yesterday in a meeting you and I both attended_that when the Atlanta airport opened that life expectancy in America was 57.

It has become abundantly clear that workers need new options to help plan for their retirement.

I wholeheartedly support this legislation. It is past due. We should do this for our very, very seriously-wounded veterans who want to have families.

I could not agree more with you in including some alternative things like the arts, music.

I think the goal ought to be with the commission is how do we... get these folks who are on disability, get them back in the workforce.

We should stop calling this posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic stress and look at how we heal these veterans.

It is critical that we get those claims adjudicated before that length of time.

Am I correct in that? Are there bins of letters that have been sent in and a person has a reasonable expectation to hear back from their government in a reasonable length of time?

We didn't spend $309,000 of the taxpayers' money that could have been spent on healthcare for veterans.

There seems to be an ethical bankruptcy at the VA in some instances.

I don't see how in the world as an employee of the Veterans Administration you could sit there and see these claims piled up, basket loads of letters, because I hear it all the time when I go home, 'I haven't heard from the VA, Dr. Roe.'

This project is a 'FUBAR on steroids.'

I am past frustrated and to see this enormous amount of money being spent that could have been spent for patient healthcare.

This billion dollars could have provided a tremendous amount of healthcare for needy veterans and deserving veterans.

This project is a FUBAR on steroids.

In my opinion, the House version was the Affordable Care Act was a much better bill than what the Senate passed.

Just because you have a health insurance plan doesn't mean you can get health care coverage.

If you put a $3,000 or $4,000 or $5,000 deductible for someone who makes $26,000 or $32,000 a year, it might as well be $100,000.

I could not agree more that we should have done this bill on a bipartisan basis.

I have heard today from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle about the Cadillac tax. It needs to go.

We need to stop this sky-is-falling narrative. Since the Affordable Care Act was enacted, 12 million private sector jobs have been created.