I think anyway, Medicaid is hanging by a thread. I think it is hanging by a thread.

We have got our heads in the sand here, because we are talking about how to do this, what it is, reauthorizing and meanwhile in the larger bubble, there is a wrecking ball that is going up against Medicaid.

What stands out to me today is how important Medicaid is, I mean how essential it is.

I am fascinated by the question of our colleague from Georgia about why does it have to be this way?

I hope everyone is listening to this. Because we are dealing with frail, elderly people that are far more vulnerable.

I represent a part of California, a part of the Bay area that has a heavy concentration of our industrial belt.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Jackson Lee very much for her comments. Indeed, we do look for a better deal, better jobs, better wages, better education. That is our goal, and we can do that. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time…

I thank Mr. Tonko so very much for his comments. He covered the issues very well. I want to go to two issues really quickly that need to, I think, be wrapped up here. First of all, the President talks about the Affordable Care Act dying…

Ms. Kaptur, thank you for your comments. For years you have been the strong voice of working men and women in the State of Ohio. Thank you for bringing us the message from mid-America. Also, in your wrap-up, you began to talk about the…

Mr. Speaker, I want to follow along on my Republican colleagues, as they were talking about rural America. As a son of rural America, I agree with much of what they said about the role of the Federal Government in providing support in so…

Mr. Speaker, America has been enlightened by the gentlewoman's very forthright statement. The voice of New Mexico has been heard here on the House floor, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that message from…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York. The view from the great State of New York and the State of California, somewhere in between those two States lies the State of New Mexico. I yield to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms…

I thank Mr. Tonko so very much, once again, from the East Coast and the West Coast, I hope, to a message that America has listened to. I just looked out here in the audience and I noticed that our colleague from Texas is here to speak. Mr…

It seems like only yesterday that the President said, You are either with us or against us.

Madam Speaker, I rise to express my disappointment that Republican leadership has added something as controversial as funding for the border wall to a critical bill funding our Nation's defense. There is a reason those who live on the…

Madam Speaker, the appropriations bills we are talking about today should be about providing critical funds to keep our servicemembers safe, take care of our veterans, and support necessary defense programs. It should not be about helping…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation, and I want to thank all my colleagues who worked in a bipartisan manner to make it happen. Patients and providers in my…

Mr. Speaker, I commend my distinguished ranking member of the Financial Services Committee for her brilliant leadership, for her bipartisanship, and for always trying to find a way to help America's consumers and protect America's…