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Mr. Speaker, I will make reference to a couple documents before I discuss the bill. First of all, our Pledge of Allegiance, which we say every day, we pledge allegiance to the Republic for which we stand, right, the flag and the Republic…
Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman McHenry for yielding. I am pleased to speak in support of my bipartisan resolution, H.J. Res. 109, a Congressional Review Act resolution for the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121, or SAB 121 for short. I…
Mr. Speaker, number four is a letter dated February 29, 2024, sent by the American Bankers Association to Chairman McHenry and Ranking Member Waters, expressing support for H.J. Res. 109. American Bankers Association, Washington, DC…
Mr. Speaker, think about why the Congressional Review Act was passed in the first place: to give Congress the ability to check a regulator that has gone astray. If we don't pass this resolution, we are effectively giving the green light to…
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.J. Res. 109. I don't want to be redundant on some of these points, but the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 is a radical departure from how…
That effort required bipartisan cooperation from both chambers and presidential leadership.
the root cause of all of this is a third-party payer system.
I think we ought to start figuring out a way to transition that were doctors are at the top of the treatment pyramid rather than being crushed at the very bottom and become independent again like it was only a few decades ago.
we have taken the benefit of free market competition out of healthcare and that's the problem we're dealing with.
we've got government control, by and large, setting the terms for how the insurance companies operate.
you can talk about fee-for-service going to a value-based model. Again, those are just buzz words.
The only way to make these critical programs sustainable is to follow the Ronald Regan, Tip O'Neil model of 1983.
Republicans want to preserve and strengthen this program for future generations.
Well, sir, those who come here illegally, it depends how they are released, and this is one of the ways the Biden Administration has significantly exacerbated the problem.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 34) establishing the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies for the inauguration of the President-elect and Vice…
Mr. Speaker, I will get this done in less than 5 minutes. As has been pointed out, anybody around here a while knows that frequently when a bill passes we include requirements that an agency provide reports. Another way for a Congressman…
Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of question as to why President Biden--or a lot of people in my district wonder why President Biden continues to allow over a quarter million people in this country month after month after month. One of…