Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentlewoman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. Speaker, on the floor of this House in 2011, the President of the United States promised the American people to reduce barriers to growth and investment: ``When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix…

Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the underlying bill, which would be badly undermined by this amendment, which would remove from Congress the ability to determine which regulations make sense and which don't, which regulations…

Mr. Chairman, the amendment seeks to carve out from the REINS Act's reforms regulations that concern natural gas or hazardous materials pipeline safety or the prevention of oil spills and their adverse impacts. We all support pipeline…

Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. The REINS Act is intended to make sure that Federal Government regulations get it right--solve the problem intended to be solved by the Congress in the manner intended by the…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment exempts from the bill any rule pertaining to health or public safety. Health and public safety regulation, done properly, serves important goals, and the bill does nothing to frustrate the effective achievement…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the bill. The REINS Act would create new obstacles to the promulgation of regulations designed to protect American workers' health and safety and to protect the environment. It would jeopardize the…

I want to thank you for your Department's outreach efforts.

I think is not looking at the positive effect that the Affordable Care Act has.

I think the other thing in terms of job creation as I said with the Medicaid numbers, what we see is increased jobs because of some of the changes.

What has happened to the growth in healthcare costs since the passage of ACA?

Child care ought to be a national priority for America's children and to help grow our economy.

We must invest in quality early learning programs because all children deserve to enter kindergarten with the building blocks to success.

It is time to invest in these programs and ensure that we are giving ALL children the chance to succeed.

Can you say a word about what the Affordable Care Act does for people with insurance in terms of preexisting conditions and job lock?

I wanted to ask you a few questions about the Affordable Care Act.

It is past time for Congress to raise the sequester-level discretionary spending caps that are stunting the progress we can make as a nation.

I want to thank Secretary Burwell for her efforts and her Department's hard work implementing the ACA.