Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'd like to take a moment to highlight the fact that shortly before our friends in Canada were kind enough to host the Olympics in Vancouver, my home district of Miami, Florida, was…

Madam Speaker, yesterday, March 15, was Florida's Day of Action to raise awareness about the sham elections in Sudan which are scheduled for next month. When the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in the year 2005, the dream of a…

Mr. Speaker, if I could inform Ambassador Watson that I have some more remarks to make, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to take a moment to highlight an unfortunate absurdity that we are confronted with today, Mr…

Madam Speaker, for more than 1 year, Congress and the administration have failed to make health care reform a reality. The 2,700-page bill, which can only pass through convoluted, inside- the-Beltway shenanigans, has over $500 billion in…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1128, honoring the 2010 American Winter Olympic team. This resolution recognizes the incredible accomplishments of the most decorated group of Winter Olympians in history and…

Madam Speaker, my colleagues, the American people, and I think myself would like to see health care reform. There is a lot of room for improvement. There are a lot of people that don't have coverage or access to affordable health care…

As a former prosecutor I know that the first responsibility of government is to protect our citizens.

The Federal Government should take a larger and more proactive role in these complex and highly technical investigations because it has the expertise to lend a hand with detailed and sophisticated analysis.

Naturally, the consternation of not knowing if this is a cancer cluster has disrupted the lives of thousands of people.

Our children are our most precious assets. We say it over and over again; we want to do everything we can to protect them.

Two thirty-nine, ninety-nine to 65.

In the Senate-passed healthcare bill, the amount of the rebate for brand-name drugs is being increased for Medicaid from 15 percent to 23 percent.

for seven plans we reviewed, the average negotiated price for the cancer drug Gleevec increased by 46 percent from about $31,000 in 2006 to more than $45,000 in 2009.

I thought in Economics 101, the free marketplace, competition, supply and demand, I thought we learned that the more that you bought in bulk, huge purchases, the more negotiating power that you had.

Do you think the price of those drugs... are going to go up?

Late last year, the AARP released a report that showed that while the Nation was in a recession... brand-name drugs were seeing some of their highest price increases in years.

Had my amendment, and this is an academic discussion because it didn't pass. Had it passed, dual eligibles would get the same rebate when they got their drugs in Medicare that they were eligible to get those same prices under Medicaid.

But that is not the way it is, and that is not the way it was designed in the prescription drug law of 2003.