we have an urgent responsibility to make sure the federal government is operating efficiently and effectively.

I want to take the remainder of my time, no doubt, and I'll try to be brief, but there is an issue having to do with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that's just sitting out there that really, really needs to be addressed.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in order to recognize the importance of farm families throughout the great State of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota recently recognized the 2015 Minnesota Farm Families from across the State, and I am proud…

I just want to be clear, is it your testimony that the Department of Health and Human Services has no intention of looking into this matter?

The whole point about not allowing a dynamic score is we just assume--let me give you an example--

I think that you are correct that the argument in favor, that Senator Gramm and I and Mr. Diamond are making in favor of making the best evidence available, should apply to a wide range of things.

The infrastructure literature is one of the strongest literatures, I think, where it is very clear that infrastructure investment on average has a very significant positive growth effect.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Overtime Pay

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about the Department of Labor's proposal to provide overtime pay to more Americans, a step that could affect as many as 90,000 middle-class workers in Minnesota and nearly 5 million around the country…

Mr. Speaker, 5 years ago the President signed the Dodd-Frank legislation into law. The American people were told that Dodd-Frank would end Washington bailouts, protect consumers, and in the event of another perilous economic situation, it…

In Minnesota, we like value-based models because we are good at them, and we kind of lead the country in that.

If one EHR vendor is designing a technology that is not completely compatible with other systems and using its market clout to pressure providers to buy its product, doesn't this raise some serious legal concerns about anticompetitive…

I find it ironic that large vendors who claim huge amounts of interoperability are primarily exchanging data with themselves, with other installations of their own product.

I think it is important to have these hearings.

I thank the Chairman first of all for his passion and his lifelong commitment to human rights.

Gaming is also a source of jobs and economic development.

Despite the differences of opinion that we know are in this room, it is my hope that we can work together to make the Federal Reserve even more transparent and a market-friendly institution.

Requiring the Fed to articulate a 'rules-based monetary policy' so the public can reasonably predict how the Fed might react to a given set of circumstances is an important reform advocated by a wide variety of experts.