Mike Enzi

In the Senate there are distinctly different jobs. The appropriators get to set the maximum amount of money that you can do.

You and I had a phone conversation prior to your HELP Committee confirmation hearing in which you kind of conveyed to me that you didn't intend to follow the Every Student Succeeds Act as it's written.

The Federal Government should do all it can to support small business employers and employees, rather than increasing burdensome regulations.

I feel strongly that giving employees more choice and greater control of their earnings will enable smarter, more personal decisions about their health needs.

Small businesses know their employees and their health needs better than Federal bureaucrats in Washington.

The Patient CARE Act would repeal Obamacare, and instead build the economy, empower the individual, and reduce health care costs.

I will continue to work with Senator Grassley on avenues to advance this important piece of legislation.

When we were first discussing healthcare changes, there were 49 million people that were uninsured. Today there are still approximately 30 million people uninsured.

We have to be careful with the rules, too, or again we'll discourage the small businesses from looking at it.

I'm kind of curious if you have any ideas on how we can promote the open MEPs with a range of participants, and, of course, what I'm particularly interested in is in rural areas.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that we're going to expand it.

On the same topic, is there a conflict, or is the state-run plan able to coexist peacefully with the private sector plans, the small business plans?

If we go to the open MEPs, will that make the audit easier, then, too, or more difficult?

I will. I'm fascinated by the form.

One of the things I had to do was fill out the Form 5500 for some employers, and it fascinated me.

We can help grow our economy from the middle out, not from the top down, which is a goal of mine.

The stakes are too high to rush through these issues without really thorough feedback.

Open MEPs can be another option to help Americans achieve their retirement goals.

I believe that the vast majority of small business owners across America are just like the ones we serve in Wyoming in that they would like to offer a retirement plan benefit to attract and retain good employees.

I look forward to again working with the senior senator from Massachusetts, Senator Warren, and I hope that all the committee members and witnesses will join me in focusing this discussion on what we can agree on.

I believe we can do this through expanding small business retirement pooling by allowing the broadening of diversity among those businesses within such plans.

I agree with President Obama on this topic and appreciate that he desires to enable employers to take advantage of these open plans.

I'm very grateful to both Ranking Member Sanders and Senator Warren for agreeing to host this roundtable with me.

I believe we need to make retirement plans less complicated, less intimidating, and less expensive for small businesses.

If we have something we want to happen, why do we say 'but you can only do it so much and then we want nothing to happen?'