Mr. President, my amendment protects families and protects small businesses from dramatic increases in insurance premiums. My amendment directs the Department of Health and Human Services to certify that insurance premiums will not rise…

I urge my colleagues to protect Americans' jobs by supporting my motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Begich). The Senator from Montana.

Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the reconciliation legislation the Senate will be considering later this week. Similar to many of my colleagues, I first read this legislation when it was hot filed in the House last week. One of my…

The world is begging America to get its financial house in order. This Congress responds by doubling the debt in 5 years and tripling it in 10. Americans are begging for jobs, careers, and stability. This Congress responds by hiring 17,000…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?

This motion to recommit will strengthen and improve the Public Lands Service Corps program by ensuring it is focused on defined, priority activities and by adding safeguards against misuse of program funds. There are four clear and simple…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote was taken by…

Yes, in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mrs. Lummis moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1612 to the Committee on Natural Resources with instructions to report…

The gentleman from Missouri earlier gave a lovely image, and I would like to use image as well. I would like to use the image of President Obama saying over and over and over to the American people, ``If you like your health insurance, you…

I am not aware of that article, but I look forward to hearing about it from my colleague from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. Let me quote a little for my colleague, Dr. Barrasso: The undersigned state and national specialty medical…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the letter that Senator McCain referenced from the 85,000 doctors across the country opposing the bill. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed…

My colleague is absolutely correct. That is exactly what is happening. They call this a health care bill. It doesn't seem to address the major issues that patients across the country are concerned about. My colleague is absolutely right…

Well, Mr. President, that is exactly what I am hearing at home from Wyoming's voters and from my patients. I was in Wyoming this past weekend. I have had the privilege of practicing medicine there for 25 years, taking care of families in…

I heard that just this morning. We had a number of county commissioners from Wyoming here in Washington. They were at a speech yesterday given by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and she told these county commissioners, this group from…

Mr. President, I just heard the Republican leader talk about the issue of health care in America and the goal which we heard so much about of getting the cost of care under control. I have practiced medicine for 25 years in Casper, WY. I…

Mr. President, I would say to my colleague from Arizona--and there is actually a Mayo Clinic in Arizona, as there is in Florida and as there is in Rochester, MN, which is the home of the Mayo Clinic--one would think, since the President…

It puts the government between you and your patient, which is what you never want to have happen. As Dr. Coburn said, that is the wrong approach. It is not the way medicine has ever been practiced in America. It is not the way patients…

Madam President, if I could, several things. There is a wonderful Paul Ryan op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, and I would recommend it to anyone to look at that because he specifically points out that the President's own chief Medicare…