Social Security has an 80-year track record, as I said, of paying benefits on time and in full.

Let's not manufacture crises. Let's make sure we move forward, and let's take care of the real, immediate crisis.

Now, we all know Social Security is in trouble, and the first step to solving a problem is to know what you are up against.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Again, I want to thank my colleague, Mike Thompson from California, for his collaboration. I want to thank the Ways and Means staff for working with us to get this legislation done…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5447) to provide an exception from certain group health plan requirements for qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements, as amended. The Clerk read the title…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe), who is the chairman of the Physicians Caucus.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to stand here before you to offer this bill. This is a very important bill, H.R. 5447, the Small Business Health Care Relief Act. It is bipartisan…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 5447, currently under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is…

The federal government has a responsibility to ensure that our veterans receive the best healthcare we can provide.

I believe it is of vital importance to seek solutions to the problem of delayed payments for veterans' medical care.

Thank you for providing me the opportunity to submit written testimony today.

it is our recommendation that Congress remove all claims processing for non-VA providers from the Department of the VA, and place it with a single fiscal intermediary.

AMR supports and urges the Committee to consider H.R. 4689, 'The Timely Payment for Veterans' Emergency Care Act' sponsored by Congressman Boustany.

we will continue working daily to make the VA accountable, to be sure that people who are not doing their job should be fired, people who are breaking the law should be prosecuted, and we will continue that endeavor.

We have all lived through the many, many reports throughout the last 3 or so years of veterans who have been denied access to care.

We have sent money to bolster the VA, the VA hospital system to try to improve care.

In all that time, how many people at the Veterans Administration hospital system have actually been fired?

I have never heard of a system that advocates for the employee over the patient.