Medicare Advantage is fundamentally about offering seniors the choice of better health care than traditional Medicare.

I had a very wealthy couple that I met with and had breakfast with this morning that employ 80,000 people worldwide...

Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his leadership on this bill and a host of others in the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Chairman, I want to have a pop quiz. That may seem unfair to my colleagues on the other side of the…

I have truly enjoyed this. I really have. Thank you very, very much. I have learned a lot. And I appreciate it.

We have heard a great deal about ObamaCare cuts to Medicare Advantage, but didn't the Republican budget led by Representative Paul Ryan include the very same so-called cuts that were in the Affordable Care Act?

Mr. Speaker, I want to talk for just a moment as colleagues--not as Republicans or Democrats, not as members of the majority or the minority, but colleagues who are blessed to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the…

I hope that we would help educate Americans that we should be a nation that not only consumes and purchases goods, but also manufactures them and hope that we would cultivate an appreciation for manufacturing and for 'Made in USA.'

I want good, high-paying jobs.

The topic of today's hearing started out as a look at Medicare Advantage. But now we are also considering a hodge podge of GOP bills that do not improve the Medicare Advantage program.

As a result of the ACA, the Medicare Advantage program is stronger than ever. Enrollment is at an all-time high and growing, premiums have declined, and benefits have improved along with the health of the Medicare Trust fund.

Chicken Little, the sky is NOT falling.

Demonizing the Affordable Care Act and falsely claiming that the sky is falling is not a productive use of our time.

This hearing is called to order.

I am concerned that the political uncertainty surrounding how many, if any, U.S. forces will be left in Afghanistan at the end of 2014 will destroy all the work that the United States has done to build the Afghan's aviation capacity and…

As we sit here today, 20,000 Russian troops are sitting on the border of Ukraine, and it is not beyond our imagination that we are going to be needing to kill tanks sometime in the future.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving the peace.

The Affordable Care Act is a pretty big factor to companies, particularly those that employ over 50 people.

Frankly, that troubles me, coming as I do from a State that suffered so much loss on September 11th, 2001.