Leaving the statute on the books is irresponsible, and it must be removed.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 447 Resolved, That the following named…

I thank all the speakers today. Let me wrap up by saying this. In Pennsylvania, we're coal country; we're natural gas; we're the headquarters of nuclear; and we recognize we have a responsibility as a Nation to take care of our country and…

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania. I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Joe Donnelly.

It looks like the CLASS Act was a budgetary deception to mask the actual cost of the Affordable Care Act.

I have to say that I am deeply disappointed that Secretary Sebelius refused to testify today.

I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for his support and insight into this. Several of my colleagues have noted that this is a rare moment on the House floor. We actually have people from both sides of the aisle coming together during…

As a physician who has dealt with many, many patients... I can surely tell you... there are many, many other options that are much more responsible.

CBO's credibility should also be called into question for scoring the program as a saver.

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his comments and in helping to lay out how we need to lay out America's infrastructure, clean up our environment and do this without raising taxes, borrowing, or buying more from OPEC. I now yield to…

Congress should repeal it instead of waiting for bureaucrats to change their mind.

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota for his comments. As he was describing the issue about making sure that we clean up our environment, the reason is that this bill pays for those things. We know, for example, that the waterways just in…

I thank the gentlelady from West Virginia. I might add, as she was speaking about the Marcellus shale--this vast natural gas deposit which is underground in the States of New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and others--I know…

This week I introduced a bill to repeal CLASS and other new entitlement programs in PPACA.

At a time when we are struggling to save the entitlement programs we already have, good programs like Social Security and Medicare, we simply can't afford massive new government programs like CLASS.

Once we stripped away the political spin, brushed off budget gimmicks, and cut through the bureaucratic jungle, we saw a foundational pillar of the President's health care law for what it really was, truly a Ponzi scheme.

Mr. Waxman, I would say CLASS dismissed, and then we need to work on canceling.

We simply cannot afford to let this administration hide behind any backroom deals and secret handshakes any longer.