There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe.

I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.