Bart Stupak

I will give the gentleman examples. I think excessive is more than reasonable. When it is more than reasonable pricing.

A great example is Georgia. Why did it go up $6 a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? Was that reasonable, when the rest of the Nation was about $3? That is excessive. That is unconscionable.

When the oil refineries raise their rates 255 percent in the last 12 months, that is unconscionably excessive.

But, Mr. Chairman, with all due respect, the FDA does make investigations under current law under their own administration. So how can you say they are not charged with the duty of doing investigations of their employees? They make that…

Does the Federal Food and Drug Administration and NIH not fall underneath the Health and Human Services, HHS, Department? The Acting CHAIRMAN. As the Chair has ruled, although the two entities are within the same Department, the amendment…

I have one more speaker and then I plan on closing. Mr. DeLAY. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Neugebauer). (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I saw the gentleman speaking on the floor on this important issue, and I wanted to join the gentleman. Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dent). The gentleman will suspend. The Chair must advise the…

I voted in favor of this bill. However, I am concerned with how this legislation came to the floor--without a hearing and without the opportunity to offer amendments. In addition, I am a strong supporter of local rule and this legislation…

I hope my colleague is right on that issue because we are concerned about it in Michigan. We look forward to my colleague's leadership on that issue to make sure we preserve our sugar industry in Michigan.

Our sugar producers and the Michigan Farm Bureau have come out against it because we do not have that big of a sugar industry. It is only a $500 million industry. But they feel with it coming in, and my colleague is right, over 15 years…

We are basing it upon past years' experience. It is like the story about the eight blind men describing an elephant. One is describing the leg, one is describing the trunk, and one is describing the ears. We really do not know what we are…

Even with our caps in Michigan, our premiums for our doctors are higher than those States without caps. If California has gone up 167 percent in the last few years and the rest of country has gone up 500 percent for malpractice premiums…