This is further affirmation that when it comes to health care choice and competition are essential.

Where we are headed does not pass the smell test.

I can tell you who the loser is. It is female sports.

It could have implications to higher education that means no student--no student--receives a scholarship.

Generic drugs play a valuable role in helping patients' access affordable medicines.

Over the past few years, a lot of promises about affordable health care were made, and a lot of promises have been broken.

These life-saving products not only help many Americans to meet their health care needs, but also improve patients' quality of life.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Senate rejected legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Meanwhile, the House has passed legislation to authorize building the pipeline nine times. There is no good reason to continue to delay this…

Your insight into VA's mental health programs will be tremendously helpful to this Committee.

It takes compassion and, as I have said in previous hearings, someone on the other end of the phone who sounds like they want to help.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the ATTIRE Act, which we will offer as an amendment to the rule if the previous question is defeated. The most notable aspect of the majority's so-called…

the implementation of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, or BW-12, has proven to be problematic.

Representative Murphy and I introduced legislation that redefines private flood insurance to remove Federal restrictions and requirements on coverage.

there are studies that have been done that for every one dollar of prevention in the mitigation, you save $3 or $4 from relief after the post-event relief.

if we are going to transition to a private market, is there sufficient capacity in the capital markets to do this?

And that is providing Florida and American homeowners more affordable consumer options in the flood insurance marketplace.

And, unfortunately, now you have only one valuation of risk that is being done, and that is by NFIP.

allowing more consumer choice in the government-dominated flood insurance market creates competition and results in better policies and pricing that will benefit homeowners.