I am really one that does not want the Federal Government to get involved in what it is involved in now.

I am just wondering what do you see with JIEDDO going forward?

I want to thank Rep. Jeff Denham for his bill, H.R. 4201, which would enable Medicare Advantage plans to inform potential enrollees of how Obamacare's cuts to the program may impact their choices of plans.

Did the 111th Congress really mean to cut Medicare Advantage in order to subsidize the Affordable Care Act?

The combined effects of these payment cuts and the new health insurance tax are already being felt through cancelled plans, reduced benefits and increased copays.

This is straightforward legislation. It will serve to inform the more than 14 million seniors currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage about how the Affordable Care Act is affecting the healthcare plans that they rely on every day.

First of all, I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, for yielding me time, and I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Gowdy) for introducing this bill. Mr. Chairman, very…

Our concern and my concern is that if we consolidate this, the Transit Security Grant and other important grants may not receive the funding or the attention that they may receive.

Why would the United States spend billions of dollars and place our military personnel at risk to ensure the flow of energy half a world away, but neglect an opportunity to enable the flow of energy in our very own backyard, creating jobs…

How many Americans are aware that next year the United States will surpass Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and gas combined?

What concerns me though is that last year over 1 billion passengers outside the United States were able to travel without having their passports checked against that database.

Mr. Speaker, as the House takes up the topic of executive overreach this week, we should take a minute to note that this issue is institutional, not partisan. In a recent LA Times column, Jonathan Turley, after acknowledging that he agreed…

Mr. Chairman, once again, Republicans are attempting to restrict the President's constitutional authority of prosecutorial discretion. Deferring deportations of DREAMers is squarely within the President's authority. It is right there under…

I hope that whatever occurs in the future, that the border nations... that a new architecture for participation in some manner to maintain an edge.

It just seems to me to leave any country that wants to accede to Europe defenseless at this moment is not a good strategy.

I want to just make an observation, that it appears to me Ukraine was left defenseless over the last 2 decades.

Mr. Chair, as chair of the Committee on Rules, I want to take a moment to address the procedural status of the resolutions discussed in this measure. It is my understanding that the resolutions contemplated by H.R. 4138 would not be…

I want you to know I was selling 8-tracks in college, so please do not lecture me on how bad they were.