Just to get it up and going. And they continued to receive that additional 16 percent, additional profit, guaranteed profit. When we did the Affordable Health Care Act, we said, Wait a minute. They don't need that any longer. The program…

No more subsidies. Now that I'm on a roll, in that Affordable Care Act, there was additional money for the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS, specifically to go after Medicare fraud. We know it's a problem. In the previous years, the…

How well you've said it, Representative Tonko. The choices are very, very clear. We do have a deficit problem, and you and I should spend some time talking about how we got into that in the first place and how we can get out of it. But to…

We often talk about this, and what you're referring to is the deficit reduction negotiations that are going on between the Vice President and the leadership of the House and the Senate, and that's good. Negotiations have to take place. But…

It's about choices. It's about where do you stand. Do you stand with the seniors and Medicare and the continuation of Medicare and the benefits that they need literally to survive or do you stand with the Big Oil companies? It's very, very…

All that we do here is make choices. All of these laws are choices about solving this international problem. Do we want to solve it this way or that way? It's about choices. This issue of how we're going to deal with the budget and the…

Exactly. So will the insurance companies want to see those people? No, they won't because those people are now 65. They're at an age where they're going to have higher medical expenses. You're asking the private insurance companies to take…

Now, on the other hand, the very same thing occurs on the private insurance side. On the private insurance side, we're going to see in the Republican budget plan, the Ryan plan, a whole population of people who have become 65 who are no…

That's absolutely true. I was the insurance commissioner in California for 8 years. Actually, that's the way insurance works. It's a large pool, all of whom share the risk. If your risk pool, as you just described it, becomes older and…

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 5 minutes remaining.

I raise this point of order not necessarily out of concern for the unmet, unfunded mandates, although there are many in H.R. 2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011; I raise the point of order because it is one of the very few…

I raise a point of order against House Resolution 316 because the resolution violates section 426(a) of the Congressional Budget Act. The resolution contains a waiver of all points of order against consideration of the bill, which includes…