Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. First of all, Mr. Speaker, I want to point out that Republicans are using out-of-context quotes from an administration, or from administration officials, to mislead the public about…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, once again I hear my colleagues on the other side repeating the same things that are not accurate. You do not have to go on healthcare.gov to sign up for health…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette). Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, some mornings in Congress I wake up and I say, now here is a solution in search of a problem; and this morning is one of those days…

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado. Ms. DeGETTE. So security for these State-based exchanges should be the responsibility of the States that are running them. I could go on and on. There are more…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Mr. Speaker, famously, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That is not true here and, sadly, the last speaker is entitled to his opinion, but the facts do not bear out his conclusions. The truth is that…

Mr. Speaker, we are in a new year, and a new session. The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, and we should find a way to move past this empty, meaningless bickering. I will vote against H.R. 3811 because this bill is a diversion…

Mr. Speaker, when the Obama Administration launched Healthcare.gov, Americans were led to believe that the website was safe and secure. As the Science, Space, and Technology Committee learned at our hearing in November, this was not the…

Mr. Speaker, this week I got a call from a concerned father in Crosby, Texas. His daughter is a single working mom with 3 young children ages 3 through 13. She recently received bad news from her health insurance provider. She and her…

I thank the chairman of the committee for his good work. Mr. Speaker, I would remind our colleagues that when you call the 800 number to sign up for the exchange policies, as was heard before our committee in testimony, the people who get…

Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to cosponsor this legislation to enact much-needed consumer protections for healthcare.gov. It is unfair that the Department of HHS launched healthcare.gov without performing a complete security control…

Mr. Speaker, this week I introduced legislation that will amend the Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, to prohibit a bailout for the insurance industry that is currently authorized under section 1341 and section 1342 of the…

I thank my friend from New Jersey for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, there are so many truly pressing issues facing our Nation, so it is a shame that we are here once again wasting time on legislation like this. It doesn't even solve…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak on the devastating loss of unemployment benefits for 1.3 million Americans already and 1.9 million more at risk of losing benefits if Congress fails to act soon. I have heard from constituents across my…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 3811, the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act. There is a very real and pressing need for Congress to enact data security and breach notification requirements. But H.R. 3811 isn't the way…

Mr. Speaker, in southern California and across the American West, 2013 was another year of extremely dry conditions. And as of today, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which is our water storage facility, is well below its…

Mr. Speaker, sometimes people say, Gee, if you are back here in Texas, you ought to be in Washington in session. I have to remind them that when we are in session, it is often the single biggest threat to American liberty, because when we…

So I think we have proven today that seismic activity is an important precursor to any energy activity offshore.