At this time I yield to my dear friend from California (Mr. Schiff), through my distinguished friend from Ohio.

I begin then by thanking my good friend from Ohio for his leadership in this matter and express to him my great personal respect and high esteem. I am particularly pleased that we have been able to have these brief remarks from his…

This, I will tell the gentleman, is his time. He has led in the matter. I am prepared to accede to his leadership. Mr. LaTOURETTE. I think we need to hear from you, Mr. Dingell.

We have no further requests for time, but I would like to say a couple of words. Mr. LaTOURETTE. As do I. The gentleman is the dean of the House. You go first.

Again, through the kindness of my good friend from Ohio, I yield to the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts.

With thanks to my good friend for his kind comments, I yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from Maryland through the distinguished gentleman from Ohio.

Of course, but they didn't relate to the matters that you have brought before the House at this time. You can't explain what's in this bill, and nobody here knows what it does. {time} 1610

I want to thank the Chair for the kindness that you have shown me, and I want to express my particular thanks and good wishes to my dear friend, Mr. LaTourette, before this matter, and now, through the distinguished gentleman from Ohio, I…

Mr. President, I join my colleagues in honoring the service of the Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski, on becoming the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. She is an inspiration, a mentor, and a friend, and I congratulate…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a massive new branch of government created under the Dodd-Frank Act, fails to safeguard proprietary information given to the Bureau by regulated entities. I rise today in support of my bill, H.R…

To my colleague, Mr. Dent, hold up. You're giving complete immunity to hospitals, physicians, and providers for any emergency activity. Do you want to do away with all liability whatsoever because it's in an emergency room? Of course, you…

I thank the gentleman for his courtesy. But why, as a new Member--and we welcome you to this body--why would we strike all the findings from H.R. 5?

But what we're doing in the amendment is to provide immunity to all hospitals and physicians and require the Federal Government to pay for medical errors committed by them. Look, we have 98,000 patients dying every year due to preventable…

Just to get the facts into this debate, I rise in strong support of the Bonamici amendment. I include for the Record the Congressional Budget Office letter to Chairman Dreier on March 19 in which the CBO estimates that enacting the…

The Volunteer Protection Act, I say to my colleague from Florida, is a Federal bill enacted in 1997, and that's the one that I would urge you to want to join with me and others to modify if there is a problem. What you're doing by…

It is my position that within the good that this does is a poison pill. The good is that consumers would also benefit from a repeal of McCarran-Ferguson. We salute you. But the poison pill is that this measure would ban class actions on a…

I raise a question to my good friend from Florida. If you feel strongly about this, why don't we modify the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 rather than go into the business of a constitutional violation by changing all of the State laws…

The problem here is we don't have a problem. The 1997 law, which is called the Volunteer Protection Act, which I don't recall being mentioned, already provides immunity to all volunteers, not just doctors, to everybody, all volunteers, and…