Today, you have 41 million people who are carrying $1.2 trillion worth of debt, and it is putting a damper on our economy.

The average debt of a student coming--62 percent of the students in this country come out of college $35,000 in debt.

Now, I would like to talk a little bit about my own experience. In 1970, I was a physician.

It was almost 6 years ago to the day that I introduced the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, which was designed to help stop trade in conflict minerals that were sustaining the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

And so it would be similar to that program in Part D that we put in with the CO-OPs.

So your chance of supporting these CO-OPs was cut by two-thirds.

The Republicans were opposed to a public option. So the CO-OPs were an alternative that was put into this bill.

If it cost more than they anticipated, we would support them at least to a certain extent to get through that.

I suggested that the Republican Congress in 2013 slashed the funding for loans and grants by nearly two-thirds; is that correct?

Instead we will hear more of the same: complaints about problems they have created through their own sabotage and nothing constructive about how to make the system work better.

For the past five years Republican colleagues have systematically and deliberately sabotaged the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.