If Oxley had more control over that process and the timing, I just don't think we would have the law that resulted.

The calendar says they will be in session for 120 days, but when you subtract Mondays and Fridays, which are travel days, that drops to 74, so it's a very short playing field. At some point, you have to see what's politically achievable.

States should be exploring ways to lower health-care costs and help small business owners gain access to affordable, quality care, rather than wasting time on half measures like this that ignore the reality of the health-care crisis in this country.

Why are we going to put this yoke on corporate America's neck? This is a problem for everybody in the country.

This will accomplish very little, and this totally misses the mark, which is to take appropriate steps to slow the kind of double-digit health care increases we've seen. This is so far off the mark it's incredible.

We will actively encourage our members to stop providing health care as a voluntary benefit because it makes no sense.