I would, in all fairness to the administration, ask you to pose to them the question of whether we can continue on this road of not funding those that maintain the areas which you have a great interest in.

Mr. Speaker, I ask to bring up H.R. 724 to rescind President Trump's refugee ban on persons like Mustafa, who worked on a construction crew on American bases to fortify them and was tortured because of it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The…

I agree with what Dr. Roy said. It is really important to say that it was the pre-ACA versus post-ACA.

the Affordable Care Act of course expanded Medicaid and the expansion populations were eligible for a federal match of 95 percent this year

I also believe this debate should be conducted based on facts, not fear.

I happen to believe that our Nation's healthcare policy should be one that promotes the healing and the health of all Americans without hurting millions.

So from the standpoint of what we saw in Ohio as many of the people on the program were working so we believed--and we had a Healthy Ohio waiver which we turned into CMS that was disapproved--that having people participate not only in…

Mr. Speaker, this is what a refugee looks like, and I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 724, which would rescind President Trump's refugee ban and help unify the family of an Iraqi refugee who is now separated indefinitely from her…

I believe that people can be served if the states are given the proper flexibilities in whatever----

The purpose of it is to have a person actually make a choice of where they are going to go.

If you are asking if all federal dollars, no. That would be very difficult for a state to do.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up Congresswoman Lofgren's H.R. 724, which would rescind President Trump's refugee ban on individuals, like the 30-year-old Iranian citizen who…

It depends on what flexibilities are given to states. Those two things have to go hand in hand.

Madam Speaker, last week I introduced the Reporting Efficiently to Proper Officials in Response to Terrorism Act, the REPORT Act. It creates a legal requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the United…

One of the things I have advocated for a long time is the Medicaid directors should be brought in earlier to talk about rules and regulations and what will work and not work.

Mr. Speaker, America is and must remain a country that welcomes refugees, and we must welcome refugees of all religions. President Trump has our country under a Muslim ban that makes us less safe and less American. Less safe because we…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 724, which would rescind President Trump's refugee ban on individuals like the student from Afghanistan who was denied entry, sent back, and had her visa canceled. The SPEAKER pro…

Madam Speaker, today is Tuesday, January 31. It has been 11 days since the inauguration of our new President; and, oh my goodness, has it been an extraordinary 11 days. I just hardly know where to begin. Normally I come up here, and we…