David Roe

Rest assured, we will bring your thoughts to Washington, D.C. and use them to persuade our reluctant colleagues that it is time to repeal ObamaCare, get government out of the way of our job creators, and work toward commonsense solutions…

I know it's a commitment shared by Representative Kelly and many of our colleagues across the country as well.

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

We don't have enough companies making profits. Because the last time I looked, tax revenues drive all of these opportunities.

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.

Why shouldn't those decisions be made?

The PPACA imposes numerous tax hikes that will slow economic growth, reduce employment and suppress wages.

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.

Please never forget what makes America great: the freedom to pursue dreams and become the best we can be by providing equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

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.

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

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

Education shouldn't be a mystery. We should know exactly what our kids are doing.

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

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 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.

Is there a way that we can speed up the hiring of the caseworkers, or turf that out so we can get these veterans off?

When you have a situation where more veterans are dying of suicide than combat then we have a huge problem in this country.

That has become a real passion of mine.

If, as his officials claim, the above examples are merely 'isolated' cases, it should be a straightforward matter to correct the abuses in these few cases without significant effort or delay.

I can only conclude that for whatever reason, the VA officials with whom I have interacted have not told the Secretary what is happening on his watch.

Mr. Chairman, every person to whom I have spoken who knows Secretary Shinseki... has told me that the Secretary is one of the most honorable and conscientious leaders ever to serve our country.

We don't need to be treating our wounded warriors and heroes this way.

It is embarrassing to me as I said as a father, as a veteran, and just a citizen of the country.