We're having a conversation about healthcare affordability for small businesses, but really for employees of small businesses.

Thank you so much for your sponsorship of that bill and your leadership with Senator Shaheen.

the access issues are still real concerns.

The thing I have heard from my constituents consistently as it relates to this demonstration project is fear. They are scared.

I do want to echo my concerns for my citizens, particularly those in rural areas, those with rare diseases--sickle cell being among them.

I certainly have appreciated the concern of my constituents about the amount of time that they could spend on the road trying to find the right practitioner, perhaps the right hospital to go to.

One of the things that I think escapes us at times is the impact of the medical loss ratio on a small business person's opportunity to have an expert come in.

Are decisions that we make leading to the accessibility and affordability of health insurance?

They are a sons and husbands and brothers to the people that we talked to at the very beginning and the last group that I talked who which are the family.

I wish we were wrong too. The worst is yet to come. I hate to be saying this all the time, but as they are losing territory in Iraq, which they are, and they are being hurt some in Syria, which they are, they are becoming a lethal…

Isn't it kind of odd that we have not 4,500, we have over 5,000 troops. They are playing with the numbers again. I know this. There are over 5,000 troops. About 1,000 are off the books. They are there; they are just not being counted. This…

If I may, just to wrap this up, 50 diplomats who served in the Mideast wrote an open letter to the world to say that we have let Assad get away with murder. Assad will be in power when Obama is gone. Russia and Iran have gone to Assad's…

the LCR creates disincentives for banks to accept business deposits. Isn't this at odds with the centuries of accepted banking practices accepting deposits from customers?

Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Womack). The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. Speaker, I respectfully request that the Chair answer the question posed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is no longer recognized. The Chair has advised that the gentleman has not stated an inquiry that is relevant to the…

Mr. Speaker, I believe that that bill has been filed and it is languishing in the committee. My inquiry is, isn't it true that we can have a vote on that bill right now? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has not stated an inquiry that…

Mr. Speaker, isn't it true that the majority can schedule a vote on the no-fly, no buy bill right now? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will not entertain any inquiry that does not relate in a practical sense to the pending proceedings.

The problem is this demographic wave that we face, correct?