I rise today in strong opposition to repealing health reform. Instead of focusing on job creation, my friends across the aisle want to refight the health reform debate and take away patient protections that are already helping people get…

I join my colleagues in honoring Representative Giffords, mourning the victims of this senseless shooting, and lauding the heroism of those who endangered themselves to help those who were injured. Saturday's horrific shooting in Tucson of…

I would like to remind my distinguished friend that health reform was 100 percent paid for, and the party that wants to spend $700 billion on the richest Americans for their tax cuts certainly shouldn't lecture anyone on the deficit.

I rise in support of H.R. 5712. The legislation as we know...to support it this morning.

And rise in support of H.R. 6130, which strengthens the Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act, as you have heard described here. This bipartisan fraud and abuse-fighting legislation was co-authored by our ranking member, Mr. Herger, and was…

The 75th anniversary of the East Bay Regional Park District really goes back to the early grassroots days of actually the Depression, when people in our district banded together in that time to organize and tax themselves to create this…

The service men and women serving overseas have born the brunt of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act ensures that when they return, they will obtain the quality treatment…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Madam Speaker, since 1985, I have worked for today as we finish our job to enact health care reform in America. This reconciliation bill provides affordability of insurance premiums for low- and…

This is a historic day. We have worked to enact health reform in America for decades. President Johnson took a major step when he signed Medicare into law in 1965 and guaranteed every American age sixty-five and over quality, affordable…

MedPAC's recommendations help us keep Medicare working well for providers, beneficiaries, and taxpayers.

If the Congress wishes to extend added benefits for these sorts of services, it seems to us that is your call, that is the Congress' responsibility, but in the interest of solvency of the Medicare Program and the interest of existing…

We need to level Miami down toward Oregon, not level Oregon up toward Miami, or we are doing a severe injustice to our children and grandchildren.