I have been tremendously impressed over the years by the dedication, whether it is in Puerto Rico after the hurricanes there or in Connecticut or elsewhere in the country, by the dedication of our civil service employees.

I have introduced the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act, which aims to strengthen the safeguards.

I have been a long-standing advocate of protection for whistleblowers.

Because the purpose is making as much money to make the owners filthy rich. Right?

How have we let American capitalism get so off the rails? So, unmoored from the common good that anybody thinks it's Okay to make a billion dollars off of degrading healthcare for poor people in Waterbury, Connecticut.

This is just a choice to decide to commoditize our healthcare system, in Connecticut, in Louisiana, in Massachusetts, in every state across this country.

How have we let American capitalism get so off the rails? So, unmoored from the common good that anybody thinks it's Okay to make a billion dollars off of degrading healthcare for poor people in Waterbury, Connecticut.

This is just a choice to decide to commoditize our healthcare system, in Connecticut, in Louisiana, in Massachusetts, in every state across this country.

Because the purpose is making as much money to make the owners filthy rich. Right?

How have we let American capitalism get so off the rails? So, unmoored from the common good that anybody thinks it's Okay to make a billion dollars off of degrading healthcare for poor people in Waterbury, Connecticut.

as all of us know and the Nation today commemorates, 23 years ago we experienced the unthinkable. Our Nation went through an unspeakable, massive terrorist attack on our own soil for the first time in our history. The attacks on September…

Had I been present, I would have voted NAY on Roll Call No. 412. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.

This is just a choice to decide to commoditize our healthcare system.

This coming Saturday, September 14, the USS New Jersey, the 23rd Virginia-class submarine, is going to be commissioned in northern New Jersey. It was delivered to the Navy earlier this year. Next to me is a photo of USS Iowa which is going…

the purpose is making as much money to make the owners filthy rich.

I thank Mr. Neal for putting this together. Mr. Kelly knows how much he loved him, and I think it is a great tribute. I want to start by saying that we are having a planning meeting because we are going to do a longer memorial, and I thank…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. As he said, he was one of us. He loved this place and so many of you. Monsignor Sylva, at that beautiful funeral that Frank was talking about, typified Bill by saying he was a man of justifiable anger…

Again, I would just like to ask all the other witnesses, the simple question yes or no, do you think Congress should reduce the tax-exempt status of health care--employer-sponsored health plans?