During the last 12 months, a litany of tragic failures has reinforced the need for stronger pipeline safety laws.

Last September, the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion left eight people dead and many other injured.

firms are stripping away our Internet users' anonymity and gaining the ability to decide whether or not you would be a good customer.

Well, they are not in the bill now, so I am trying to get the record to indicate that you think they ought to be protected.

The committee will soon be marking up a data security bill. That markup may involve defining what data must be secured.

Until they end the program in 2022, the Affordable Care Act is the Republican plan for Medicare excluding IPAB.

This is another battle in war waged since January by the Republicans to tear down the Affordable Care Act.

We were promised that a Republican replacement would be right behind it. But we are now in July and we have seen absolutely no sign.

Congress must accept its responsibility for legislating sound health policy for Medicare beneficiaries, including reforms to the payment systems.

The Republican plan shifts all of the burden for healthcare costs onto seniors, people with disabilities, onto the States.

We should eliminate IPAB, reject the Republicans' efforts to dismantle Medicare, and focus on reshaping payment and delivery systems.

I think the right way to reform Medicare is to make care more efficient the way we have started to do under the Affordable Care Act.

The Republican plan proposes to increase premiums and force people to negotiate their care with private plans on their own.

Repealing IPAB--while preserving the essential health reforms in the Affordable Care Act--enables providers to focus on innovations that will achieve cost savings.

They want to cut the program by $20 trillion over the next few decades.

It is a fact that IPAB is prohibited from rationing.

Surveys from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and numerous other independent surveys all confirm Medicare patients have access to care, at least as good as the access private insurance patients enjoy, if not better.

The Republican plan would end Medicare's guaranteed benefits, the things like hospital stays and doctor visits.

The Obama Administration is already implementing healthcare reforms to reduce the rate of growth in healthcare spending by holding providers accountable.

The Republican plan would increase cost-sharing for Medicare beneficiaries, more than doubling their out-of-pocket costs for new enrollees.

These are reforms that we should build on to achieve greater cost efficiencies without risking access or quality.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, you have to ask: How do they come up with this great idea to put this bill on the House floor today under the suspension of the rules? This calendar is usually put in place for…

How much time remains on both sides? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Lankford). The gentleman from California has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 6 minutes remaining.

We need to hold these agencies accountable.