mr. vaughn.l just tell you that my very first job at age 16 was with burger king back in madison heights, michigan, in 1980. >> great, thank you. >> thank you again for your testimony. at this moment i would like to introduce mr. william dennis. mr. dennis is senior research fellow at the national federation of independent business. he has directed the nfib's research foundation since 1976. welcome and you have 5 minutes to present your testimony. thank you. >> thank you, ms. chairman, mr. altmire, representative kingston. last weekend, a study with health insurance one year after enactment, what i would like to do is focus my remarks on the result of that study since it's quite current and i think many ways quite relevant to what we're talking about today. first of all, to be sure we understand who was included in this, we surveyed only people that were under 50. excuse me, small employers that were only -- had 50 or fewer employees. it was a nationally random sample. it wasn't just the nfib mem

mrs. vaughn, our thoughts and prayers really go out to you. we thank you for being able to come on tonight and say kind words about your grandson and about our men and women in uniform. stay safe and god bless you. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >>> i want to go back to chris heben. we talked about the sacrifices of the families and the families are well aware of the danger, but you don't want to get that phone call that that grand pore got and the father got. >> no, that is the worst phone call you will ever get in your life. i assure you. my mother spent many a sleepless night over me. my younger brother is currently serving in the u.s. army special forces just recently returned from an afghan deployment. and my mom has spent many a night wondering if she's going to get that telephone call. it is not a pleasant occurrence. >> yeah. everything that we're dealing with he we talk about, you know, the things that are going on in washington and quibbling over the debt ceiling and all those things it, really makes them in some way, they're

and mrs. vaughn, i was reading last night that you think we should start by making sure that our condolences are expressed to all the families who are grieving this morning because aaron truly felt he was a member of the team. >> exactly. although i'm able to be here this morning and i'm thankful to share aaron's story, the other people have also lost their loved ones and they're feeling no less grief than i am. >> mr. vaughn, i was reading about your son. and, boy, he was an impressive young man as a child, as a young adult, as a son, as a father, as a husband. he was a young man who stood out. why did he want to be a s.e.a.l.? >> matt, i can just tell you that after 9/11 aaron told me and his mother that he wanted to be a s.e.a.l. and he said that he had wanted to ever since he was a little boy. and aaron, if i can just say it, god bless him, he loved his country, he loved god, he loved kimberly, and he loved reagan and chamberlain, and he honestly believed and saw black and white that what we were