I thank the gentlewoman for bringing us the view from Ohio. Let's now talk about the view from Arizona. Mr. O'Halleran, this being your first year in Congress, welcome. I am delighted to have you join us on the floor. Mr. Speaker, I yield…

Mr. Speaker, I see that my colleague from the great State of Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) has arrived. Often we have shared time on the floor. Ms. Kaptur, if you would care to share with us your thoughts on the Affordable Care Act as it exists. I…

I want to thank the gentlewoman from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, for her consistent and constant caring for men and women in this Nation that are on the outside, that are not among the wealthy, that are struggling with their families to…

I had language in that that required neonatologists being hired, and that was back in 2012.

Before the BPCA and PREA, the vast majority of drugs, more than 80 percent used in children were used off-label and without data on their safety or efficacy, and today that number has been reduced to approximately 50 percent, but that is…

Mr. President, I rise in strong support of Judge Charles Breyer's reappointment to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Judge Breyer earned his bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard University in 1963 and his law degree from the University…

Last year my colleague on this committee Ben Ray Lujan and I introduced the Promoting Life-Saving New Therapies for Neonates Act.

Thank you for having a hearing on this bill. It is certainly helpful to inform us about, about the proposal.

Are many of the people that would be let go, per se, if we legislatively failed to do our job here, would that--you are talking about jobs, people who are specialists, or what kind of jobs are they?

We need more assistance from the state and Federal Government at the local level to be able to do this.

So that people can do the right thing, corporations or individuals can do the right thing, and at the same time they can get some help in actually doing the right thing?

Do our job legislatively by the September '17 deadline.

Is it fair to say that getting so close to September 2017 creates kind of a little bit of nervousness amongst people who are trying to get their work done in such an environment?

And something such as a year of that revamping to just restore back to where it was, doesn't that cause a compounding effect potentially when it comes to the actual work being done going forward not only within the department but in the…

the current PREPA debt sits at approximately just under $9 billion.

The 3.4 million Americans residing in Puerto Rico need assurance that there is a solution to this troubling issue.

we must do everything that we can to support these projects.

I would like to welcome our witnesses here today to discuss one of the very important issues within our jurisdiction, which is oversight of U.S. participation in the multilateral development banks, including the World Bank.