Home health care, particularly for the elderly, but in long-term recovery, is a better environment and a less expensive environment for a patient to be healed in than a hospital is.

I just want to thank all five of you for your testimony. It has been very illuminating hearing for all of us.

I think is terrific.

Thank you, Mr. Ranking Member. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the so-called Ryan budget Path to Prosperity, which really should be called the Ryan budget ``Mainline to Misery for the Middle Class.'' Budgets are a reflection of our…

Quite frankly, Congress is guilty of the same type thing. We have far too many duplicative appropriations in different departments.

I think there are some people--some people; I am not speaking about you--who are driving people away from home health care and into hospitalization, which is less good for the patient's mental health and much more expensive in terms of…

I commend the movement away from that and the movement towards reimbursement based on quality.

But obviously, you do not think so.

There is no excuse in the age of Google and Facebook and Twitter to have three straight sessions of nothing but data entry.

We need to find it and we need to implement it sooner rather than later.

I have had a personal experience with one of my children many years ago where they were recovering over an extensive period of time, and the home health care, from the standpoint of the mental health of the patient, is far superior to…

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 77 on H. Con. Res. 18, I am not recorded because I was absent due to a death in the family. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' On rollcall No. 78 on H. Con. Res. 19, I am not recorded because I was…

We introduced Public Law 112-88 to address the concerns that our constituents in Georgia have that they are facing not only more regulations, but more aggressive enforcement.

Many of us feel that some of those bank closures were not necessarily caused by the external strong winds of the economy, but in many respects by not the proper type of regulation, perhaps overaggressive regulations.

I certainly hope that you will soon become aware of it because you all are the source of this bill.

It is my hope that we are going to move deliberately, as you have said, to make this readable.

I think there is influence. If we're influencing in other things we can--there is influence that needs to be looked at beforehand in this process.

Yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court regarding first-sale doctrine raises some concerns.