This hearing is surreal. It ought to be about jobs not about poverty because if everybody had a job there would not be any poverty.

The issue of access to medicines has been central to some of our concerns, and it seems like the language you have put in is really a step back.

This committee does a lot of things here, but most of them are irrelevant. But it seems to me that we ought to be dealing with GSP if we are serious about our relationship with the rest of the world.

Repeal and replace is a great way to tell voters what they want to hear.

In fact, the figures showed that they actually increased their coverage during that period of time.

That probably explains why Governor Romney, a noted conservative Republican, put the individual mandate into the program in Massachusetts.

It seems they have discovered in themselves a repressed populism they reserve for special occasions when it serves their no tax/no regulation agenda.

To say the employer mandate is connected to that really is a ruse to get us into a big argument about bringing the whole program down.

They have decided to use this delay, which will not hinder the rest of implementation, to target a much more important provision of the Affordable Care Act, that is the individual mandate.

Confusion is the greatest way to kill something. My distinguished Chairman tries to confuse.

My Republican colleagues appear very upset by this decision despite its support by the business community.

If you are going to cover everybody in this room, you have to have everybody in here paying into the program, on some level.