Mike Enzi

In my 20 years here, the only use that I have seen for that is for one party to beat up on the President's budget and the other party to proclaim the intelligence of that budget.

I have been trying to get a capital budget since I got here.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for organizing this hearing and for your consistent support of retirement plan options, specifically Multiple Employer Plans.

I was very pleased to see the FDA join with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other Federal agencies in announcing a sweep of criminal and civil actions.

Under the rule, consumers will have consistent nutrition information available to them, whenever they eat out in covered establishments.

Federal law includes an express preemption provision that preempts any requirement for nutrition labeling of food that is not identical to the requirement of section 403(q) [of the FD&C Act] [21 U.S.C. 343(q)],

Thank you, Chairman Enzi and Ranking Member Sanders and the members, for your focus on expanding retirement savings solutions for small businesses through MEPs.

We absolutely need a Federal solution to make sure that small business activities that cross State boundaries don't have this patchwork of regulations that they need to comply with.

We need a Federal solution beyond what the States are doing.

I'm the one that tried to get computers on the floor of the U.S. Senate. I've been working on that for 18½ years.

Of course, auto enrollment has been proven to do just exactly what he said. It reverses the 10 percent that sign up to the 90 percent that wind up involved in the system.

Thank you very much. We appreciate it.

There's a lot of commonality here moving forward, and as long as we can ensure that we maintain the protections that are in the law for a good reason...

You know, you ought to have just a uniform form so we don't have to spend $5,000 getting one of these things set up.

Quite frankly, we're doing a disservice to our population when we know that social security is basically the only retirement plan that most people have.

I'm grateful to Ranking Member Sanders for agreeing to host this roundtable with me.

Thanks. I've got to help get some of those advisory committees started.

I prefer roundtables to hearings because, too often, people think that the purpose of a hearing is to divide up sides and beat up on each other's witnesses.

One way to do this is by allowing the expansion of multiple employer plans.

A critical challenge in enhancing the retirement security for all Americans is expanding plan coverage among small businesses.

I want to thank the Senator from Washington for her very thorough and passionate explanation of the problems with the VA. It is time we got it straightened out. We have a new director because there was a problem. We gave them more money…

I know that Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy have been very focused on this last challenge and on ensuring that providers can speak up about technology that isn't getting the job done.

This is an effort Senator Baldwin is especially interested in, and I really appreciate her work on it.

I applaud this committee's efforts to consider the merits of modernizing the Endangered Species Act.

I introduced earlier this year to ensure that the Federal Government consider scientific data collected from State, local, and tribal authorities when making ESA determinations.