On the recordJuly 31, 2014
I didn't hear a question posed in that, but I concur. And I mentioned in my remarks, as the Senator from Connecticut has said, that the rates were not allowed to go up to the double-digit request, although I also mentioned they are going up by double-digits in many other States. Yet the President of the United States said the rates would go down by $2,500 per family per year. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi--who was Speaker when the Member from Connecticut was a Member of the House and voted for the health care law--said on ``Meet the Press'' that they would go down for everyone, and that is not the case. The case is, as I have continued to say on the floor of this body, rates are going up across the country even though the President promised something else. What people are seeing is higher premium rates, higher deductibles, higher copays, and loss of doctors. They feel Washington is taking control over their lives. We are also seeing lower paychecks in Connecticut as people try to comply with the 30-hour workweek requirements, which are causing school districts to have to choose whether to hire reading teachers as a result of the mandates of the health care law. I thank the Presiding Officer. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.
