it tends to be that way.

the answer to everything is not more money that we do not have, that the answer to everything is not more Federal Government that we do not need.

I appreciate the fact that we are now relying on a CBO score which should have come months ago or weeks ago.

you will own that chaos, because if you do not do what the consensus was with the CSR and with creating some flexibility and having the mandate or some other idea to have the mandate, you will get instability like you have not seen before.

The United States is unusual among advanced economies in that we have millions of children living in poverty in our country.

I applaud your proposal to expand that refundability and reduce that threshold.

I hope we can get to bipartisan tax reform.

Let me ask you what your thoughts would be about a universal Child Tax Credit of some sort that might provide a monthly benefit to families in our country.

I think that the expanded Child Tax Credit is maybe a slightly more moderate version of the same idea.

maintaining CSR payments and creating reinsurance programs should be the first steps in stabilizing the individual market

you may not approve plans that don't include what we call the patient protections or patient protection guardrails.

I would like to ask the committee to do would be to fund Federal reinsurance for at least the next 2 years.

I think one of the biggest benefits of reinsurance programs over high-risk pools is that they are less expensive.

we're dealing with 6 percent of the people that are insured when we're focused on that.

May I ask how much time I have left. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to speak about my amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Division of H.R. 3354. Mr. Chair, the right to bear arms is ingrained in our nation's founding. These rights are…

I would just ask my colleagues to support my amendment, and I thank the chairman of the subcommittee for his support. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the…

I agree with you, too. And I also want to commend you and your leadership again and talk about some of the toughest things that we've seen over the past several years.