John Garamendi

Take away the resource money and see what happens. We lose the race. We know we all get sick, right? Why would you ever put forward a policy to reduce research in medical services and the basic understanding of the human gene, of…

Well, R&D, research and development. In the continuing resolutions pushed forward by the Republican party and successfully enacted and signed into law by their intransigence to deal with any new revenues, the research budgets of the United…

Representative Tonko, I come from the San Francisco Bay area. We are the first great science research technology. We'll let you be number 3. But we're number 1.

And everything in between, Hands off my Medicare, Hands off my children's Medicare. However, we're saying that. The public is saying that. Democrats say we will not give an inch on Medicare. We will control the cost within the total health…

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…

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…

I want to pick up one more issue. I know my Republican friends over here are constantly saying, oh, but in the Affordable Health Care Act you took $500 billion out of Medicare. Let's understand what that's all about. In 2003, in that…

Let me see if I understand. What you're saying is that, in the negotiations, the Republicans are saying they are willing to cut services to seniors--Medicare. We also know that there is a proposal by Mr. Sessions, a Republican, to…

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…

I will ask for a vote, but I now yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner).

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let us understand that the underlying bill does not provide the necessary money for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to conduct the necessary oversight and regulations to adequately control the…

No, I don't think so because, I suspect, I'm pretty much out of time. Let us understand what is at stake here. It is the very nature of our economy to be able to survive in an era of rapid speculation that has driven up the price of oil…

Thank you. If the gentlelady from Wyoming would recall the years past, she would recall what is known as the Senate filibuster. The graveyard of legislation that the Democrats put forth many, many times died in the Senate as a result of…

Thank you. You say it's a moral obligation to cut $500 billion out of the health care bill? No way. That was money that came out of a subsidy to the insurance companies. And you say it's a moral obligation to leave the insurance companies…

It's always good to talk about your legislation. This is a great way to get things started. This is a great way to do it. It came from a fellow from the East Coast, the great State of Rhode Island, and it basically is a block grant program…

I voice my strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, H.R. 1540. Unfortunately during a busy legislative day, I missed the roll call for this important bill, which passed the House of…

I am shocked, absolutely shocked that my Republican friend isn't standing firm for small businesses in their communities. Would you like 61 or 60,000 miles? Whatever it is, we want the small contractors to have a shot at it. Be happy to…

As a great example, your colleague next to you there has a piece of legislation that calls for fairness in the financial markets, the value of the dollar versus the value of the Chinese yuan. Mr. Ryan, you have put it out there. You say it…

It is actually already there. It is called advanced biofuels, algae-based fuels, everything from cosmetic oils to fuel for the Navy ships. So we can do these things. But, again, it is how we deploy our resources. We have about 5 minutes…

We are talking about what America thinks was yesterday, and you are telling me it's the fastest growing?

Indeed. Mr. Ryan, you come from a part of the world that was and is going to be, given your leadership and the leadership of this Make It in America agenda, the premier manufacturing place in the world. We will contend in California; we…

Thank you very much, Mr. Tonko. You started with the Erie Canal. It's interesting to note that at that period of time, which was the last decades of the 1700s and the early 1800s, the United States Government set out on a course to build…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman and Leader Pelosi. I'll say, ``Speaker.'' Is that okay? We thank you for your leadership. We thank you for your remarks. We have a couple of additional members of our caucus who would like to speak. I…

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…