Lois Capps

Delivering high-value patient- or person-centered health care seems to be moving away from the traditional physician-based model to one involving a health care team including both physicians and non-physician providers.

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 225, the National Pediatric Research Network Act. I want to associate myself with the remarks of our committee chairman, Mr. Upton. He has a family dear to…

I also rise today to recognize the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. This landmark decision granted American women the right to make their own personal health decisions, in consultation with their family and…

I do want to acknowledge the gentlelady in the chair as my partner in the Capps-Emerson lectures and as my neighbor and a real friend. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act. This is an important bill to…

Sequestration would be a huge blow not only to middle class families but also to our clean energy innovators and entrepreneurs. According to the Office of Management and Budget, sequestration would impose an across-the-board cut of nearly…

I would like to thank my colleague, George Miller, for setting aside this hour. He just asked about the amount of time, and I will take that to heart as I make my comments because we could all go on for great lengths about all of these…

I have consistently voted to get rid of the SGR, and we even did so in the House version of health care reform.

I rise to voice my very strong support of our Nation's maternal and child health programs. And I want to thank my colleague from Illinois, Jan Schakowsky, for getting the idea that we come together around this topic today because of the…

We have just a few short weeks left in the 112th Congress, but our work here is far from done. Sadly, partisan games and gridlock have made this Congress one of the least productive in history; but with the election finally behind us, I…

On rollcall No. 604, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 233, noes 175, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 603] AYES--233 Adams…

There are many times when we come to this floor and engage in heated debate, and we've heard some heated debate on this bill. But my final amendment offers us the opportunity to come together to do something extraordinarily important, and…