Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I want to really focus today on an extraordinary event that took place on Sunday, that is, American time, but before I do that, I just want to take a couple of minutes having sat here listening to the last…

Thank you very much, Mr. Clyburn, for your heartfelt and very, very appropriate words. The mission that was carried out was not something that came about just in a matter of days. It had been planned over the course of many, many years…

Congratulations on that. Our own tenth grandchild was born just 8 months ago. And I was thinking about them in the context of what has happened this last week and about what we here in Congress, the people's House, representing 350…

I'm just getting warmed up. Who gets Medicaid? The aged, the blind and the disabled get Medicaid. The Republican budget cuts Medicaid three-quarters of $1 trillion. Seniors will be--not 10 years from now, but immediately, as those budget…

My Republican colleagues have done everything they can to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, which had insurance reform in it. Without the insurance reform, which clearly they want to do away with, you are throwing senior citizens to…

A point of order. The Acting CHAIR. All Members are reminded to address their remarks to the Chair.

For 8 years I was the insurance commissioner in California. And for 8 years I battled the health insurance industry. What we heard on the floor was that 2011, what will we remember? What it will be remembered for is the death of Medicare…

We've heard a lot of discussion here this evening about what economic policy works, where do the deficits come from. Let's just figure it out. Beginning with this man over here--I think we would all recognize him--that would be Ronald…

I want to speak directly to the senior citizens of America and to those who want to become senior citizens. The Republican budget destroys, terminates Medicare as we know it today. Under the Republican budget, in 10 years Medicare will no…

Let me thank my colleague from Vermont, Peter Welch, for this presentation on the tax policy. I think we probably would want to stay with that a few moments. I know my colleague from New York (Mr. Tonko) is here, and perhaps you would like…

Today we have seen a remarkable event here on floor of the House. During this discussion that's so critically important to this Nation about the deficit and how we are going to deal with our budget, this House passed a bill that will…

The chart that you and I shared a moment ago is up here next to me; and it clearly shows that we have seen a middle class in America that has seen very, very little progress over the last two decades and, instead, an enormous shift of…