Ron Johnson

To paraphrase Senator Booker, this is not about politics. It should not be. It is really about solutions.

But anyway getting back to my question. Did you believe that if people like their health care plan they would be able to keep it, across-the-board that nobody would lose their health care plan if they wanted it?

While that has to do really with the fact that we are a community rating, we are limiting the insurance premium rate on older, sicker individuals and we are increasing the premiums, making the younger, healthier people pick up that burden…

I think a small business exchange is a good idea. It is a sharing of the risk pool.

I do want to talk about the other totally broken promise. Fraud, and it is massive fraud.

We did not need a federal solution. We did not need to take over one sixth of our economy to start doing these things.

So, they can get in the pool and pay a lot more than they were currently paying in the individual marketplace. Correct?

I would certainly encourage Madam Chair to take a look at my bill which actually is all inclusive.

So it would be totally inappropriate for the Department to comment or see the report ahead of time, before it is released?

The choice to join Europe is not a technical process that they negotiate in a document.

The United States strongly supports the institution of the Eastern Partnership, and we will remain deeply involved.

The key question is whether Ukraine and the European Union will sign the long-concluded Association Agreement.

If democracy is secured, Ukraine is likely to choose a Western geopolitical orientation.

When I was there a couple of years ago, I certainly saw the potential, in terms of agriculture, in terms of wheat production, but something really holding them back really was the cronyism, the----

The main objectives for U.S. policy on Ukraine should be to support democracy.

Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Belarus should be free to chart their own future.

Any higher consideration than gathering the intelligence we need to keep the homeland safe?

The most effective interrogation occurs over years, where you gain their confidence

Do you think 18 months is kind of an inordinate amount of time to take to determine something I think is so critically important?

What does Congress need to do? What do we need to resist, potentially?

Intelligence gathering is a far higher priority than bringing people, I guess, to eventual justice

What we need to do is make sure that you are comfortable with the oversight, but not to throw the baby out with the bathwater in terms of lurching too far in terms of restrictions on our intelligence.

Well, I wish that were the top priority. It does not seem to be so.

There should be no reason that the FBI investigation should be used as an excuse for us not to have access to question those witnesses

I have always felt that our strongest line of defense against any of these threats really is a strong intelligence gathering capability.