Congresswoman Watson, you are very, very aware of all of these, having served those many years in the California legislature, here, and also as an ambassador. And you understand what apparently our colleagues on the other side tend to…

Madam Speaker, if I might, we heard just a moment ago from one of our esteemed colleagues from the Republican side that there were no savings in the health care bill. In fact, there are substantial savings, at least according to the…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman. As you recall, you and I have had a long, long history of dealing with health care issues. In the late 1970s, I was chairman of the California State senate health committee, and when I left that post…

If I might for a moment, Congresswoman Watson-- absolutely. It would seem to be the fundamental compassion of a human being to make sure that their children and the community's children, indeed our Nation's children, have health care. And…

One of the things that was in both the Senate bill and the House bill was an effort to expand access to care, not just with an insurance policy, but also with facilities. There were major improvements and significant sums of money…

Let's talk about that. I was the insurance commissioner in California 1991 to 1995, 4 years, and then again in 2003 to 2008. And in that 8-year period I saw horrible things being done by the health insurance industry in the way in which…

I am sorry, Congresswoman, but you are uninsurable. You cannot get a health care policy.

The figures I was giving you are based on the Senate bill. Now, the additional changes that are going to be made, corrections to the Senate bill, will provide, we are quite confident, additional reductions in the cost of the total bill and…

That is yet again an example of what is seen every day in every community in this Nation. There is a denial of coverage by the insurance companies. And for those who have no insurance, they face a situation of death, bankruptcy, and the…

That is the way it should be, but the way it often is, it is the insurance company that makes the decision. I cannot begin to count the number of times when I was insurance commissioner that complaints would be brought to me that the…

How to deal with what will inevitably be the final days for all of us. We would want that to be in the interest of the individual and the individual's family. Right now, many doctors cannot do that.

Mr. Speaker and Members, I want to bring to your attention an extraordinary unit in our military in the Air Force located at Travis Air Force base in Fairfield, California. The 60th Air Mobility Wing does an extraordinary job providing…