That slush fund is already--it is not a slush fund.

The Affordable Care Act is already making a difference.

I think we got a long ways to go but I am certainly encouraged by the trend line that we have seen over the last couple of years.

And what we saw in some regions of the country, you had people who were billing Medicare off of fraudulently obtained lists and we were paying them within 30 days.

These reforms should be allowed to work.

The Affordable Care Act is making a difference.

We think the Affordable Care Act will, in the long-term, lower those health care costs to businesses, families and to our economy.

Proper implementation of this historic reform is vitally important.

I think we will end up with better quality care. I think we will end up with more diligence by the Head Start providers knowing that this process is in place.

The billion-dollar insurance industry held American families hostage for too long.

We never said we could change everything that's wrong with our health care system, or fix things as fast as people would like.

The billion dollar insurance industry held American families hostage for too long.

Now is not the time to reverse course and go back to the days when the insurance companies were in charge.

The Affordable Care Act is already working to put Medicare on stronger financial footing.

Rather than ending Medicare guarantees, as my Republican colleagues have voted to do repeatedly, we must work to strengthen the program.

Madam Speaker, 97 years ago, the Ottoman Empire orchestrated a murderous campaign that resulted in the death of 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children and forced hundreds of thousands into exile. Growing up in Fresno, California…

as Yogi Berra once said, deja vu all over again.

We have a number of expiring tax measures before the House, the Ways and Means Committee as well as the Congress.