democrat louisiana senator mary landrieu chairs this committee, idaho senator james risch is the ranking republican on the committee. >>> again, we're waiting for the senate small business committee to begin a hearing this morning on the health care exchanges for small businesses in states that opted to set up their own insurance marketplaces. while we wait for the hearing to get under way, an update on the glitches on the healthcare.gov website. >> congressman paul tonko, democrat of new york, also on the subcommittee that held a hearing yesterday, looking into healthcare.gov. congressman, let me show you the headline in the "washington times," republicans press the president to remove the health website, they want it taken down. >> right. i think that every effort is being made to look through the weaknesses of the website and to go forward and allow people the chance to enroll. it's improved. we've heard that. it's been made better and we'll continue to pursue so that hopefully in the next remaining days of the month, we'll see a vastly improved, better time response, fewer error situ