It is just 6 years since enactment and 3 years since the major reforms of the Affordable Care Act, the ACA, went into effect.

Legislatures tend to lag real life. It is just the way it is.

Unfortunately, my Republican colleagues are only interested in undermining, weakening or repealing the law.

We have come a long way. An estimated 20 million Americans have gained health insurance through the ACA.

I am mystified by Republican attempts to paint a rosy picture of the insurance market prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The way I look at it, the problem is our friends in the majority don't want to fix it. They want to break it so it will go away.

If we didn't vote to repeal it 63 times and voted to improve it 63 times I think we would have a much better law.

Votes cast by Members of Congress make us accountable to our constituents.

I am proud of the progress that we have in our country made with the ACA and I couldn't be more pleased with these results.

I have made my trip to Cuba and I ended up spending nearly a week with an individual, I had better not identify him because he would be busted by the Castro Administration.

we ought to be thinking about in this 50+ year saga of trying to free the Cuban people, back when we believed in promoting freedom around the world, and we will again.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his leadership on this issue and for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. A…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado, and I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano), my colleague and the ranking member, for his work on this important issue as well. Mr. Speaker, I was disappointed to see that my…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn the repressive actions and human rights abuses perpetrated by Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Ortega has forced the Nicaraguan Supreme Court to not recognize the leaders of two opposition political parties…

Mr. Speaker, since July 14, 2015, the Iranian regime has conducted four ballistic missile tests with not-so-subtle warnings to our ally and our best friend, the democratic Jewish state of Israel, which its goal was to wipe Israel off the…

the biggest disaster will be the chilling of First Amendment rights for free speech and the arena of thought and ideas for our scientists.

the suppression and intimidation and persecution of scientific research and development is absolutely nothing new.

I like to look at this as an economic issue because, fundamentally, that is what this is, economic interests and what is in the best economic interests of our American agriculture system.