Jackie Speier

It is a book of fiction that only applies to people who come into the hospital who don't have insurance.

Health care is not a buyer's market, it is a seller's market.

I think we are whistling in the wind if we think that once we recede from that country, that we are going to be able to have as much of an impact or more of an impact than we have right now.

I still continue to be very disturbed that these uniforms are being made, the majority of these uniforms, based on your testimony, two-thirds of them are being made outside the United States.

I think this committee should take some steps to make sure that we are making these uniforms in the United States, and not in a foreign country whether NAFTA is involved or not.

I first want to make clear that I believe that deficit reduction should be a priority.

I want to thank the ranking member for allotting me some time to speak on this bill, and to our chairman, Mr. Issa, for moving this bill forward, and to my colleague, Mr. Chaffetz from Utah, who is the author of this measure. Imagine what…

If the contractors are allowed to pad their contracts with overhead, we are losing the battle.

It reminds me of the patient that complains about having been in the hospital and then finding out they paid $50 for an aspirin.

Well, you should be familiar with it.

I think many of our concerns about another BRAC round is the lack of transparency in the process.

The last BRAC Commission raised concerns that that the BRAC process is divorced from the other strategic decisions the Department of Defense is making.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his articulate commentary about this issue. You know, the time has come for all of us to stop quaking in our boots because the NRA leadership has spoken. You know, I've spoken to a number of my…

I was unaware that he had made that statement today. In California, we have universal background checks. We have a universal background check for private sales in which you have to do it through a local gun dealer. Even with all of that…

I'd like to compliment the gentleman from Wisconsin and the freshman Members who participated in the last hour for a job well done in underscoring what the sequester means to Americans across the country. I'm going to shift gears now as…

I was unfortunately unable to cast a vote on rollcall No. 44 and rollcall No. 45 on February 15, 2013. On rollcall No. 44 I would have voted ``nay.'' H.R. 273 would extend the current pay freeze for federal workers by another nine months…

I thank the gentleman from California for his thoughtful remarks. And I want to thank each and every one of you who has participated in this Special Order. It's something that we must do week after week so that our message gets out to the…

I thank the gentlelady from California. I now welcome our new colleague from California, a colleague who I have served in the State legislature with for many years, Congressman Alan Lowenthal.

Thank you to the gentlelady from California. We now are joined by the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Napolitano), who has been a voice for mental health reform in this country for decades. I yield such time as she may consume.

It's now my pleasure to yield time to my good, good, good friend and colleague from California, Barbara Lee, who has been an outspoken advocate for gun violence prevention for decades.

I thank you for your extraordinarily sound comments on this issue. As you were talking about courage, I remember recently having an opportunity to listen to a family from Newtown who lost a child, who said to me and to others: You're just…

I thank the gentlelady from New York for making it clear that we are talking about safe and sane, commonsense laws on the books, and I am honored to be a cosponsor of her bill. I want to just take a minute and go through a timeline of what…

Thank you to the gentlelady from New York for her always powerful comments. Now we're joined by the gentlewoman from New York, Carolyn Maloney, who has just introduced a bill co-authored by Democrats and Republicans that deals with the…

This afternoon, we're going to spend the hour talking about gun violence prevention, and in particular, how the National Rifle Association has systematically unwound laws that have already been on the books. Last night, the President…

There is $2 to $3 billion, Mr. Chairman, that if this committee gets serious about really taking the recommendations of the auditor general, we would be in a position to really say we are saving people money in this country.