So it doesn't make any difference whether they are commercial or Medicaid or Medicare, I still get the same $1.29 or $1.39.

So you think leaving it in the private insurance industry, as the President's bill does, and including more people into the private insurance industry, is competitive?

You think the whole business community would be willing to accept that?

Let's take away their pensions. Let's destroy the system we have developed in this country.

Let us be clear: The Republicans hate defined benefit pensions, whether it is Social Security at the Federal level or it is a public pension at the State level.

Unions built this country. They built the highways, the ports, the schools. They created fairness, the 8-hour work day, safe working conditions, health care, pensions.

It seems to me that those folks who have money have plenty of people figuring it out for them.

I assume this hearing is on the level, and it is really about making it better for the middle class in the country, rather than for the people in the top one percent or one-tenth of one percent.

The Korean FTA brings economic benefits to each and every state in this union.

Finally we are discussing a free trade agreement that is ready for congressional consideration right now, an FTA that will generate more than $10 billion in increasing U.S. exports, $11 billion in increased GDP, and as many as 277,000 new…

If you have got it, send it. Let us move it.

I think that term 'welfare' is what is very misleading.