I would like to add to my colleague's comments by noting that shareholders in major public corporations, major issuers of public stock have said over and over again that they do not find that the amount of capital that would have to be…

In response to the President's jobs plan, Linda Shevchuk from Carmel, New York, in my own 19th district, sent the following letter to me: ``The government's first priority should be to make sure that existing programs and agencies are…

Last month Paul Manahan from Mahopac, New York, sent the following letter to me: ``We don't need or want more government spending. Cut regulation, cut taxes, repeal the 2010 health care law, and let business do what it does best: Create…

On September 14, 2011, this year, Mark Prosachik from Hopewell Junction, New York, sent the following letter to me, and I quote: ``Dear Congresswoman Hayworth, I have been unemployed for over 18 months and my unemployment insurance ran…

I submit the following: On July 27, Carol Augias from Mahopac, New York wrote to me: ``Representative Hayworth, I have never written to a Congressperson before, however, I am deeply troubled by the debt ceiling stalemate. While I firmly…

I could not agree more with the gentleman from California that the Botanic Garden is a treasure. I, too, have visited it, with great delight. But I would suggest that we perhaps could get together and seek voluntary contributions to fund…

I offer an amendment. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 21, line 14, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $632,780)''. Page 37, line 7, after the dollar amount insert…

I certainly respect the point that the gentleman from California has made; but in a time when we are running a deficit of $14 trillion, at least, we have to seek to pursue sensible measures to reduce budgets wherever we can. And we are…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from New York will be postponed. {time} 2030 Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia The…

I thank my colleague from Tennessee, Dr. Roe, for yielding me this time. In New York's District 19, I have been sharing a headline with our seniors and with all of our citizens, which is that the Affordable Care Act ends Medicare as we…

As you know, this Monday is Memorial Day, and Memorial Day reminds us that the most fundamental right of Americans, the one we cherish most, is to be free. But that freedom is purchased at a dear price. I rise in gratitude to the millions…

Thank you and the committee, Mr. Chairman, for your support of my amendment. The amendment that I have offered, No. 4, simply adds the sense of Congress that the Federal Government should not be in the business of competing with its…

I want to commend my colleagues from South Carolina and from Arkansas for putting together this hour, which is of so much value. I am here as a physician who's also a Member of Congress. I've had the privilege of taking care of elderly…

This week marks the Holocaust Days of Remembrance. In 1938, there was a family that lived in Vienna, Austria. The father was a successful tea merchant. The boys were both talented and bright. And when the Anschluss came and the Nazis…

I thank you for your commitment and dedication. I have the privilege of serving the 19th Congressional District in New York, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is in my district. We have sent, as we all know, thousands of young…

Yesterday morning I received a letter from a constituent, Seth Arluck of New Hampton, NY. Seth's three-generation family business was hit hard by the housing market crash. The 1099 rule in the Affordable Care Act, Seth says, "would place a…

Thank you, and precisely the point that I'm agreeing on with you and that I think we all have driven to philosophically is that we need to have solutions that empower our doctors, our patients and our providers to do all of them, to have…

One of the fundamental problems that I perceive, and I'm not alone in this, but in this entire scheme, if you will, that is represented by the Affordable Care Act, as it has been called, is that there was a failure to understand the very…

Section 3404 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Independent Payment Advisory Board, known by the acronym ``IPAB.'' Beginning in 2014, this 15-member board will be charged with cutting the growth rate of Medicare…

On January 24, I received a letter from Jeremy Vaitas, who lives in Middletown, New York. He wrote: ``As a 13-year-old boy in seventh grade, I am concerned about my future. Currently, the national debt is 14 trillion, 16 billion, 110…

Mr. Speaker, in New York's 19th District, our employers and small businesses and community banks tell me costly regulations are crushing economic growth by discouraging investment and expansion, by creating uncertainty in the marketplace…

What inspires me about President Reagan so greatly is that the power of his vision was so strong that a mere 20 minutes after he took the oath of office on January 20, 1981, our Iranian hostages left the airspace of that hostile country…

As a physician, I understand the profound importance of the goals of the health care bill passed last year--to assure that all Americans have affordable, portable health insurance, providing access to good medical care. I also understand…

Article II, section 1: ``The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during a term of 4 years and together with the Vice-President chosen for the same term, be elected as…

I think here the -- in Washington terms, Paul and his friends talk about the party of no, N-O. I think House Republicans are trying to say we're the party of know, K-N-O-W.