Mr. Speaker, it's a privilege and honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I have been listening to the debate first on television in my office and then here from the floor. I…

I say to my friend from Illinois, I would be delighted to sign on to that letter because I am acutely aware of what is happening at NIH, but I might also tell my friend from Illinois that I would also like to include the Centers for…

I say to my friend, it is shameful. It is not befitting a great nation. Maybe they would like us to be a Third World country. I see this and I don't understand. The Senator from Illinois is right: Where is their shame? But where is their…

As chair of the HELP Committee--that great committee upon which the Presiding Officer also sits and a valuable member of that committee--I was just informed by our staff that as of this last hour, over 2.8 million people have gone on…

But I must say to my friend that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out there keeping diseases from spreading, containing them where they break out, putting in prevention measures all over this country. They too are…

Madam President, I thank the Senator for his input and his questions. I think the Senator has highlighted the kind of situation that begs credulity. People around this country must wonder, Have we taken all leave of our senses here? People…

Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will meet in executive session on Wednesday, October 2, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to mark up S. ______…

the people have elected the House of Representatives to shut off all funding to implement or enforce Obamacare.

I can look at the polls every single month since Obamacare passed and in every single month the public has been in opposition to Obamacare.

the president's job is not to pass legislation, his job is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

the clear letter of the law is it shall be implemented in each month following December of 2013.

Well, he was an adjunct constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago. And I say to him, the answer to that question is Article I of the Constitution. The legislative branch. It's a paramount branch of government. It's set up…

This is a spiteful decision that was ordered from the White House.

If I can walk around here, why can't I walk down there? It makes no sense.

Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor, as many of us do, to speak about the intrusion into a God-given American freedom called ObamaCare. As I watched the debate go back and forth and listened to my junior Senator declare those of us who don't…

Mr. Speaker, it's my privilege and honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, especially at this time, as the House and the Senate hurtle towards some type of perhaps collision…

Well, here we are Mr. President. I guess this is like the movie ``High Noon.'' The two sides are walking down the street. I just hope, like in the movie ``High Noon,'' the good guys win. In other words, I hope reason and judiciousness and…

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 16 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Saturday, September 28, 2013, at 10 a.m. for…