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Because health insurance will now be affordable and subsidized, we insist that everyone purchase health insurance from one of our private insurance companies.

I am particularly concerned that the bill might unsettle some legitimate contractual expectations the sports leagues have bargained for.

No one really likes sports blackouts, least of all the public.

I am certainly open to examining in the future whether the antitrust exemptions enjoyed by professional sports leagues in their current forms rest on sound justifications.

Those antitrust laws are an important and effective tool for ensuring free markets and protecting low consumer prices.

I take a keen interest in ensuring that our competition laws are functioning well and having their desired effect of protecting competition.

I really rise to congratulate and thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Peters) for championing this bill and bringing to our attention a real tremendous cost savings in this HUD program with H.R. 2790, and really providing, using the…

I am delighted to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters), the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, who has really put a lot of time into this bill. As the ranking member, she…

I am absolutely delighted to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Ms. Hanabusa), who is not a member of the committee but weighed in heavily on the final draft that is before us today.

I am so happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), who came here in his running shoes and really came here because of his relationship to his uncle who is one of our former retired colleagues, Mr. Kildee of…

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Murphy), a member on the Financial Services Committee.

I have no further requests for speakers, so I yield back the balance of my time.

I am absolutely delighted to yield such time as she might consume to the gentlelady from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), the Democratic cosponsor of this bill, who is the ranking member of the Capital Markets Subcommittee.

I strongly, strongly support Representative Pittenger's Reg D Study Act. Again, as my colleague from Missouri has indicated, this is a technical bill, but it is extremely important. Commentators have argued that the maintenance of these…

I have no further requests for time. Again, I just want to thank everyone who was involved in this process. This is something that is going to protect thousands of jobs across our country. People often criticize us for not doing things in…

I am so delighted to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), the ranking member of the Ag Committee.

This bill, as has been indicated, is a bipartisan bill. We support the bill. I have no requests for time; therefore, I would urge my colleagues to support the bill. I yield back the balance of my time.

The country made a change. We actually passed an immigration bill. It was my bill.