It seems just logical, and we should expect that that is going to happen if we are going to delay payments just to delay payments when we don't it anywhere else and there is no reason to delay it.

We all agree that Medicaid should not pay for care that someone else is liable for, and the statute has protections to ensure that States can recoup when other parties are liable financially.

As we begin the second session of the 113th Congress, Americans all over this country are coming up with their New Year's resolutions for 2014. In Congress, I propose we make this the year we stop ignoring climate change. Last year…

As a supporter of the Affordable Care Act, I look forward to next year when we will see all Americans have a chance to buy health insurance. For those who are on Medicare, that is their health insurance coverage, and we will only keep the…

I want to express my disappointment that we are letting unemployment insurance be denied to so many long-term unemployed, especially a few days right after Christmas. We should not leave town until we have fixed this problem. I am going to…

Chairman Macfarlane, do you acknowledge this committee's constitutional responsibility to provide oversight of the Executive Branch?

And do you concede that in the absence of a claim of Executive Privilege, the NRC has no legal basis to withhold requested nonpublic documents from Congress?

Well, I have serious questions about allowing individual Commissioners to object to producing specific documents to Congress.

When Congress requests documents, we should get those documents.

I want to use my opening remarks to comment on a really bad idea.

Regrettably, this legislation before us does nothing to truly advance research at NIH. If we really had a sincere commitment to strengthen research at NIH, let's work together on a bipartisan basis. Let's have hearings on the legislation…

I thank you for yielding. Both of you are absolutely right. It is so shortsighted to have us cut back on funding for the National Institutes of Health and their research agenda. When you make a cut in this area one year, it isn't like you…

I rise, reluctantly, to oppose this bill. First of all, I want to express to Gabriella Miller's family my sincere sympathies. We all want to fund more research to fight pediatric disease. Nothing could be a more worthy objective. If we…

But I fear this new policy is much too restrictive. Would you commit to thinking through the concerns that we are raising today with your colleagues, and to consider making changes to the policy to address these concerns?

I rise as a member of the Safe Climate Caucus to call attention to a new report from the Nation's premier scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. We typically associate climate change with gradual, longer-term problems, but…

Yet, it is clear that the electric grid is not adequately protected from physical or cyber attacks.

So you would think that it would be appropriate for Congress to address this gap in authority?

It is lacking now in the legislation.

I think you are right to make that a priority.

The Nation's critical infrastructure and defense installations simply cannot function without electricity.

I believe to an extent under the 215 because there are physical standards for data centers and some that are part of the cyber standards.

On February 15, a small group of Democratic Members of the House joined together to form the Safe Climate Caucus. We vowed to come to the House floor every day to talk about the defining environmental challenge of our time: climate change…

We are told that the Pompeo bill seeks to speed up the approval of interstate natural gas pipelines. In fact, it would have the opposite effect, delaying and disrupting a pipeline approval process that is working. The nonpartisan…

I am pleased at this time to yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Castor), a very important member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let's say they needed a couple more months but that 12-month period is right there. Well, they will either have to approve it without those extra few months of review or deny it, which could mean…