I am afraid I cannot for exactly the same reason. I am late for a meeting in my office. But I certainly would have no objection to placing his comments in the Record and regaining the floor at a future time.

We all have compassion for families struggling, those who have lost jobs, those who lack access to health care. We all want to do what's right for our country. We all want to solve these problems. But as I look at this massive, complex and…

I have been listening to my colleagues' comments. I have actually found some things to agree with. Ms. Slaughter mentioned that the American people have been lied to. I agree. They have been told that a policy which raises taxes for 10…

My colleague from New Jersey made a point earlier that he wasn't sure that many people on this side have read the bill. I have read the bill, and some things are quite apparent to me. One, there is a loss of freedom. Thou shalt buy…

In Massachusetts, they attempted to expand access and control costs. That is this plan. And what we just heard in Massachusetts is the Democratic treasurer saying this plan will bankrupt our Nation in 4 years. Alternatively, what we can…

I think my perspective might be a little bit different. In fact, when my colleague was speaking about physicians, I was sitting here thinking I am a physician. And not only am I a physician, but I have actually been working to treat the…

I understand, and I appreciate it. When you say that we are going to give a raise for primary care physicians, that is actually not included in this in terms of the Medicaid costs, so State Medicaid costs are now going to go up.

In my State, the first 3 years we are responsible for these additional costs is going to cost my State $600 million. Well, that is a savings to the taxpayer. Now it is just the State taxes that are going up instead of the Federal taxes…

Isn't it ironic that Women's History Month is at the same time, in the same week that this article in The New York Times comes out about how this poor woman in Michigan on Medicaid, there is such inadequate Medicaid reimbursement that she…

If you don't control cost, you can't give access. Now Republicans have been proposing things. I was so pleased the President said we're the party of no and then he embraces our idea of HSAs, high- risk pools, and other things. So that's…

Let me get to the point here. In this bill we have the other side says there's $500 billion that's going to be taken out of Medicare without one word of explanation how they're going to do it. They're going to take it to extend the life of…

I had the great privilege of practicing medicine for 20 years in Louisiana. I was a heart surgeon. I did open heart surgery, critical lung surgery, and I took care of many patients during very difficult times in their lives. And I got to…

I thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding. And it is very interesting that those of us who came here to clean up this process are watching as the liberals that are running this Congress try to ram through a 2,407-page government…

I thank the gentlewoman. I will finish it up with this. Are you going to believe the people who have broken every other promise they have made about the bill or are you going to believe the Catholic bishops and National Right to Life who…

I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for yielding. You know, here we're talking, and this is about the only opportunity we're going to have for real debate on this because Speaker Pelosi and her liberal lieutenants have decided that…

I thank you gentlemen for joining me this evening. I thank our audience. This has been again another productive discussion about health care. I ask that everyone going forward in the next 3 days pray for us. And I yield to the gentleman.

Those are all great. I appreciate your adding some of the things I left out. This list is getting so long of all the special deals. And the way that the Democrats are attempting to bypass the Constitution is just really unbelievable, and…

Reclaiming my time. In the last few moments that we have in our discussion, which I think has been a great discussion, and once again I thank the gentlemen for joining me this evening. You know, we are in the final hours of this, it would…