Mike Rogers

I believe further action is needed to make it clear how strongly we feel about this.

This is an act of war.

This to me is, as Chairman Meehan said, a game-changer.

We think it will expand Medicaid by as much as 25 million people.

The problem with this is this bill changed for someone my age. I used to have to pay six times what it was actuarially to a young person who was healthy.

I have read the bill. Twenty seven hundred pages and now 10,000 pages of rules that I am not going to read.

Health care decisions should be made by a patient, their family and a doctor, not an insurance company and certainly not the federal government mandating what should be done.

There are only two kind of companies in America: those who have been hit with cyber attacks by the Chinese...

Questions Submitted by Chairman Mike Rogers for Robin E. Kane.

I'd like to see if we can find creative ways to reduce that cost over time, while still keeping the traveling public secure from acts of terrorism.

I believe that TSA presents ample opportunity for generating any number of private-sector jobs.

I believe we can achieve this while effectively securing the traveling public and the flow of commerce.

We endorse this as well as do all other national agent professional associations as well as, I said, the NAIC broker taskforce.

I am sure that you all are aware of H.R. 1206, which now has 120 bipartisan cosponsors, 24 members of this committee.

I am hoping this Committee will make any kind of changes you want to make.

My amendment really only focuses with the DOD... we have these very creative, very innovative technology companies...

I strongly believe in the value of a vigorous small business contracting community and advocate increases in the small business goal from 23 percent to 25 percent.

The fact is, that gentleman right there would object to that, if they wanted to raise that size standard.

It is critical that there is a point person, somebody that makes the decision, somebody that is absolutely in charge.

Hopefully, we can continue to work together to perfect it in a way that we can here in Congress if there is such a thing.

Simply put, we must always be prepared.

Bioterrorism remains a very real threat to our country, which is why I think this bipartisan legislation is so important.

I have got a chart up on the board right now that states--and this is from CRS. This is not my numbers, CRS showing the number of criminal convictions in the last 2 years.

I think the Chinese have a saying, why invent it when you can steal it? So that's what they do.

We have turned in--I know of companies that have turned it in to ICE, and I have turned them in, just to find ICE not to do anything about it.