Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 402, noes 0, not voting 28, as follows: [Roll No. 94]…

Mr. Speaker, 50 years ago today, the State of California made a decision that would alter the course of a nation. By establishing the California State University system to work in conjunction with the University of California and…

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, directly to Mr. Lungren's proposed amendments, actually there are three major elements. If you look at those major elements, they do in fact give the insurance industry the opportunity to collude, because that is…

Tomorrow is an extremely important day here in Washington, D.C., and across the Nation. Tomorrow's a day in which the President will hold a summit on health care. The outcome of that meeting is of extraordinary importance to individuals…

Chairman Conyers, thank you so very much. Mr. Speaker, I keep thinking about that movie ``Casablanca.'' The guy says, I am shocked to learn that the Republican Party that has championed itself with the free market economy would oppose a…

When my colleague from California was attorney general, I was insurance commissioner, and we had a grand fight over this very issue, the very issue of whether the State of California would allow the insurance companies to continue to use…

The proposed amendment opens the door for collusion. It gives the tools for collusion to the companies. We ought not do that. And there is no other part of the American economy that such collusion and such an open door and invitation to…

Mr. Speaker, members of the House, we have before us a very simple but extremely important proposal by our Republican colleagues to provide the insurance industry with the opportunity to continue to collude, to set prices, and to harm the…

That ought to be enough. In fact, that ought to be about a hundred times too much. Competition. You also brought out the word ``progressive.'' It was Teddy Roosevelt, in the early part of the last century, that really created the early…

Mr. Speaker, I thought I would never hear such foolishness in all my life. In fact, in California, the stimulus bill has worked. We have thousands of teachers that are in the classroom teaching. In my own district, we have a $970 million…

Mr. Speaker, if Americans are believing that the stimulus isn't working, then the media must be telling them that. So I am kind of curious about the previous argument. The facts are that the stimulus in my district in California is in fact…

Mr. Speaker, I keep hearing this discussion that the stimulus didn't work. I don't know what people are looking at, because, in my district in California and in the State of California, the stimulus has been of utmost importance in…