It is another attempt by the Republicans to undermine and undo the Affordable Care Act's provisions related to women's health.

Well, I think we can do things. We can have affordable health care.

The facts are that even with the news about the CLASS program, the health care reform law will cut the long-term deficit and save taxpayers money.

the health care reform bill continues to be a financially responsible law that will reduce the Nation's debt.

One of the problems people have in trying to buy insurance for long-term care is that if they had any kind of preexisting condition, they can't buy it.

For the 200,000 seniors I represent, the jovial reaction to the suspension of CLASS was both disheartening and predictable.

If that is a concern, let's fix it.

But I have to say, Mr. Chairman, I am tired of the Republican rhetoric that says Congress and the government in general can't do anything.

So we still need to address this long-term care insurance?

Just as Social Security succeeded as a wage insurance, reducing elderly poverty from 50 percent to 10 percent, Americans should have an affordable way to finance long-term care.

Triumphant statements from opponents of health care reform at the suspension of CLASS do nothing for the grandmother in my district.

I refuse to give up on CLASS, just as I refuse to give up on the health care reform.

You know, why can't we do things? Part of what makes us as Americans is that we are can-do people.

The new benefit of the bill--the new benefits of the bill are entirely paid for and more by new revenues and by improvements that cut the overall cost of health care, cut waste, fraud, and abuse from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

If they repeal the CLASS Act, they will have the following status quo continued.

No one is immune from the frailty of old age. Anyone can fall ill or become disabled.

Today's hearing considers yet another bill to allow more air pollution, more asthma and more heart attacks.

I think that is not common sense, I think that is ridiculous.

If that rural dust is produced by farm machinery, that could have harmful impact, couldn't it?

The Clean Air Act doesn't regulate dust. The Clean Air Act regulates harmful pollutants, and in this case, we are talking about two kinds of pollutants.

I invite any witness or member to identify an EPA regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations where EPA imposes limits on farm dust. There are none.

when it is proven that there are substantial health risks and after a cost-benefit analysis that this makes sense

Let me take exception to... there is nothing in the law that says this dust is from rural areas...

Mr. Pompeo correctly reads the bill, it removes Federal Clean Air Act over deadly soot pollution from power plants, mines and the like if States if doing so already.

I hear this all the time, and I have heard it all my career. I have got a simple bill, totally common sense. It only deals with a problem that is on people's minds.