Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk made in order under the rule. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division F (before the short title), insert the…

Mr. Chairman, we know that there are a lot of contractors who have significant wage violations. It should be a privilege to contract with the Federal Government. Taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize companies that engage in willful…

Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. The Chair understands that amendment No. 114 will not…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment would reduce funding by 10 percent for programs administered by all accounts in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. By making it across the board, it makes it more difficult for the agencies to actually…

Mr. Chairman, I rise as the designee of the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), and I have an amendment at the desk, No. 113. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment would strike language in the bill that would prohibit the EEOC from using its funds to implement pay data collection. Mr. Chairman, we know that racial and gender pay gaps exist in America. The Obama…

A lot of the reason for that is, I think, because of the volatility you described.

Who outside this building cares about that? We are talking about health care and we ought to come up with something that can effectuate the flexibility promise of these two waiver provisions and not needlessly gum them up.

Some of these solutions are very short term, though, and we need some longer term help from all of you.

The stakes are existential for us to get this right because, frankly, the last 8 months, the American public has just been assaulted with words like 'repeal,' 'implode,' 'sabotage.'

Let me be clear. Like any worthwhile compromise, I know we will not agree on everything at the outset.

I want to emphasize that because democrats will reject any effort to this discussion if it erodes the guardrails and protections that so many patients and families rely on.

The combination of a discussion about repeal with an Administration that, frankly, has rooted for an implosion has people very, very frightened in the most important area in their life.

You cannot fix health care just with one party.

The stakes could not be higher.

Healthcare is the most important expenditure anybody ever makes with a dollar in their pocket.

I think the idea of this Innovation Office, this kind of one-stop shop makes an enormous amount of sense.

This legislation reforms Medicare to give physicians additional incentives to treat patients with chronic diseases in their homes.