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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of this comprehensive and bipartisan effort to end violence against women. The Violence Against Women Act recently passed by the Senate properly updates this crucial legislation for the 21st…

I want to thank the administration for making the promotion of clean energy and environmental sustainability a priority for the U.S. and Latin America.

I mean, on a humanitarian level that is not possible?

I thank the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of my constituents in Florida's Third District to voice the concerns they have shared with me over the President's sequester that will go into effect on Friday. Make…

We can't--there must be some way that, working with our allies, our partners, the Vatican, that at least on a humanitarian basis together they can convince the Cuban Government to allow a physician of the family's choosing to come in to…

despite all of our efforts, we haven't seen a response from the Cuban Government.

we were going to do that with a quality rating system called the Stars.

Well, Florida is the opposite of Delaware, because upwards of 40 to 50 percent of Florida is on Medicare Advantage.

So your goal, to summarize, would be that you want to have all plans 4 and 5 stars, and that, if insurance companies get to that quality level, they will be making money, the senior citizen will be very happy, and the overall cost to the…

A long time ago, this committee was formed when our Nation was facing a crisis of our uninsured elderly.

it is the passion that you continue to carry, from being one of the coauthors of the Affordable Care Act, that you bring to the chairmanship of this committee in such things as the hearing today, how to make it better.

Jimmy Fallon show will be great tonight - I'm on!

Hearings like this give us the opportunity to have some accountability and transparency to how our tax dollars are being spent, and to examine if our efforts in Central Asia are worthwhile pursuits, which I believe they are.

I think that we have historically viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as a very dangerous organization with values and principles and platforms utterly inimical to our American values and democracy.

It is a very dangerous and short-sighted game to ignore the long term strength that comes to a society when we base our policies on standing firmly and strongly for our most profound values.

I think it is also sadly a reality that Morsi is probably now relatively speaking moderate as against some of the really extreme Salafis who are part of his coalition.

Anybody with eyes to see can understand that many of the gravest threats facing our nation today from a national security and a terrorism, anti-terrorism perspective are coming from societies where religious freedom is constrained.