And they handed it out in dividends rather than investing it in any kind of----

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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