For the 200,000 seniors I represent, the jovial reaction to the suspension of CLASS was both disheartening and predictable.

Triumphant statements from opponents of health care reform at the suspension of CLASS do nothing for the grandmother in my district.

No one is immune from the frailty of old age. Anyone can fall ill or become disabled.

Just as Social Security succeeded as a wage insurance, reducing elderly poverty from 50 percent to 10 percent, Americans should have an affordable way to finance long-term care.

The new benefit of the bill--the new benefits of the bill are entirely paid for and more by new revenues and by improvements that cut the overall cost of health care, cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

One of the problems people have in trying to buy insurance for long-term care is that if they had any kind of preexisting condition, they can't buy it.

So we still need to address this long-term care insurance?

the health care reform bill continues to be a financially responsible law that will reduce the Nation's debt.

I hear this all the time, and I have heard it all my career. I have got a simple bill, totally common sense. It only deals with a problem that is on people's minds.

If the Republicans want to reduce or eliminate existing controls on particulate pollution from industrial activities, they probably have the votes to do that, but if so, let us debate that on the merits.

I think that is not common sense, I think that is ridiculous.

Let me make sure we are clear on what we are talking about with regard to currency manipulation.

I invite any witness or member to identify an EPA regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations where EPA imposes limits on farm dust. There are none.

Mr. Pompeo correctly reads the bill, it removes Federal Clean Air Act over deadly soot pollution from power plants, mines and the like if States if doing so already.

I take issue with his suggestion that this is somehow politically motivated.

when it is proven that there are substantial health risks and after a cost-benefit analysis that this makes sense

Let me take exception to... there is nothing in the law that says this dust is from rural areas...

Today's hearing considers yet another bill to allow more air pollution, more asthma and more heart attacks.