So this basically sounds to me like insured Oregonians are subsidizing uninsured Oregonians.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

You just have been a real leader on bankruptcy issues, and I applaud you for your work in this area.

Your job is to resolve all these claims on someone when they go bankrupt, right?

From the very beginning, you have identified the foreclosure issue and have worked in many, many different areas.

Mr. President, I first wish to commend Senator Wyden, Senator Grassley, and Senator McCaskill for their incredible determination to get this done. We thought we did it when our class of Senators came in. We thought we had gotten rid of the…

I've co-sponsored an amendment or bill to actually get rid of that burden; and I think we will.

What if I told you that monthly premiums for Massachusetts's businesses... rose, on an average of 6.9 percent?

I think this is really a discussion about a comprehensive health care reform, and not just cherry picking certain paragraphs.

I fought for that, which basically says that insurance companies that have large group policies have to use 85 percent of the premiums that they get on actual health care.

One of those paragraphs I would think that people do like, is getting rid of preexisting conditions as a reason to discriminate against a child or a patient; right? That's pretty popular; isn't it?

So, isn't that the reason for the mandate? So, in other words, when I hear my friends who are opposed to this reform say, 'Well, we really like the nondiscrimination against people with preexisting conditions, but then you can buy a health…

I thank the gentleman. And on the morning after the night we sat here together and listened to the President talk about us working together, we have got a motion to recommit that I think we can all agree upon. As the gentleman spoke about…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen), a true champion of transparency and openness in government and our elections.

I am. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Walz of Minnesota moves to recommit the bill H.R. 359 to the Committee on Ways and Means with instructions to report the same to…

Does the underlying bill cut spending? Does the motion cut spending? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair cannot respond to inquiries regarding the content of a pending proposition. Without objection, the previous question is ordered on the…

Parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Please state your parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of…