These numbers are staggering and not something the committee should ignore, especially in a down economy.

The CPAs come to me in Arizona and say: I can't advise my clients. I don't know what the tax structure will be. So here we are with a new 121 pages of regulation which obviously will affect 50, 60, 80 percent--let's say it only affects 50…

I call upon you, Senator Enzi, to do the job your constituents entrusted you with!

According to the NBCC, the Department's proposed Gainful Employment Rule, will lead to 400,000 students leaving postsecondary education, it will lead to a 15 percent reduction in lifetime salary for those students, it will eliminate 90,000…

In my 14 years, I haven't been through a series of hearings that have been this one-sided.

In 1991--and I spoke with him on the phone recently--Senator Sam Nunn had an investigation into this same thing.

Let's get to work solving that problem, Mr. Chairman.

The Federal bureaucrats have figured out what the minimum amount of insurance is that you ought to have and everybody else in America ought to have, and even if you like what you have, you are going to have to go to that if there are…

The Chamber of Commerce, for instance, says: The administration released an extremely complex regulation that makes it virtually impossible for plans to maintain grandfathered status, instead subjecting them to many expenses and burdensome…

Senator Enzi, I trust that you have asked these questions honestly and in that same sense of respect and decency.

Certainly. The Senator from Iowa is not answering the same question the Senator from Illinois is asking. I did say that when the resolution passes, they would not be able to discriminate on preexisting, they would not be able to impose…

I appreciate the comments by both of the leaders on health care from the other side, but you can't have your own facts. You can't show significant changes as being the only thing that eliminates grandfathering. If you look at the Federal…

And the Senator from Arizona has not even mentioned the 1099 problem that is supposed to help pay for part of this bill. Yes, which our colleagues just voted down. They voted down a resolution by the Senator from Nebraska that would allow…

the resolution we are debating today is about keeping a promise. The authors of the new health care law promised the American people that if they liked their current health insurance, they could keep it. On at least 47 separate occasions…

Yes, it will be dramatic. We have not begun to touch all of the regulations that have to be written on this yet. We looked at the Medicare bill and how many pages of regulations came out of that, and it was 100 per page, which would be…

when we talk about 121 pages, we are talking about what the small businessman has to access. He has to go on the Internet and print out the pages. There are 121 pages. Yes, if he could get it in the format of the Federal Register, he would…

I do stand ready to work with the chair on solutions to the problems facing our Nation's students and higher education.

It is a correct assessment in most of the parts. They will have to give up the insurance they have now, even if they like it, which the President did mention 47 times in public speeches. And there are some requirements on how much of a…

So what you are saying is that unless a health care policy provided by an employer is absolutely unchanged totally for an unspecified period of time, then that health insurance policy can be declared invalid by the Department of Health and…

According to the administration, in small businesses, 80 percent of the people--unless this is passed--will lose the insurance they have and like, and in all businesses 69 percent will. Those are not my numbers; those are the…

I agree there is clearly a problem in higher education.

So in a 2,733-page bill, if we have 121 pages of regulation for every 2 pages, that is going to be pretty interesting, isn't it? And the fun has just begun. If you do have health insurance, we'll make sure that your insurance is more…

For-profit colleges have made the Federal Government their primary free-money spigot.

Actions speak louder than words.

I, as a taxpayer, call upon you, Senator Enzi to pay attention, find them, and fix them!