I have to say it has been interesting to listen to the concerns that have been expressed about the budget because, of course there were people who were perfectly prepared to see NASA operate under sequestration levels that would…

I am really--I am curious as to what you all think the Congress needs to do in terms of directing NASA in terms of a timeline to provide a roadmap that would be reasonable then if we were to proceed along this goal to 2021 and then into…

I appreciate the Chairman and the Ranking Member calling this hearing because I would like us to be more invested as a committee and a Congress and really to help do what Dr. Magnus described, which is set of vision, a strategy, something…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of…

Mr. Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended, and as the motion indicated, it addresses secret…

I am opposed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Van Hollen moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 3865, to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report the same…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend and colleague. I have listened all afternoon as my Republican colleagues have held forth about the importance of the First Amendment. No one is debating that. That is not what this bill is about, despite your…

one of the reasons why this bill is failing is because it was not passed with bipartisan efforts.

Mr. Speaker, the train wreck of the President's health care plan continues. Last Friday afternoon, curious timing, the Centers for Medicare Services released a report. Mr. Speaker, the CMS is working with the IRS to implement ObamaCare…

Mr. Speaker, 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 243, noes 176, not voting 11, as follows: [Roll No. 69]…

despite the evidence, the increasing evidence of the adverse effects of marijuana.

Where was the medical expertise that you used in making that decision?

cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, have tremendous problems with drugs and hopefully that will go part of the way for solving some of those problems.

Madam President, today I would like to draw attention to a disturbing trend impacting the work of journalists in China. On January 30, 2014, New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy was forced to leave China due to processing delays for his…

Instead of harnessing the power of consumer choice to lower costs overall by aligning lower cost sharing with lower total costs, the plans divide the interests of individual beneficiaries on the one hand, and the Medicare Program on the…

I think it is a fair expectation on the part of the taxpayers and the beneficiaries that periodically you kick the tires on the program.

I think it is outrageous that there--you have independent community pharmacists that are essentially being locked out of the opportunity to participate in a preferred pharmacy network.

It is certainly fair for the program to expect that if the plans are securing discounts, that some of that benefit would come back to the program and to the taxpayers.