I think it's appropriate, because what the subject of today's hearing is really about is who has the burden of making proposals to try to reform our Medicare program going forward.

Since the Affordable Care Act has been passed more people are signing up for Medicare Advantage, and it is costing people less.

Medicare was conceived in part because those people who are 65 and 66 just didn't have a private market, didn't have a place to go to that could adequately insure someone that is likely going to be more sick.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Since 2003, the Defense Department reports that it has spent approximately $1.3 billion to buy non-combat vehicles from foreign vehicle manufacturers. Now you may ask, why is that? We have a law on the books that's…

Just to quickly point out that is a pretty bread-and-butter, vanilla restriction on funding, as I understand one of the objections is that this would change the duties of contracting officers who now don't apply the Buy America law. In…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I thank the ranking member. I rise today in support of House Resolution 268 that affirms the United States' support for a negotiated solution to the Israel- Palestinian conflict. Setting preconditions on negotiations is just an excuse to…

I want to tell you about a young woman, a young woman named Sarah. She actually lives in a shoreline community in Connecticut in Representative DeLauro's district. She has got four kids. She was playing by the rules, did everything that we…

I think we've gone too far here, I think, in violating House rules, in violating basic concepts of fairness.

What we're asking here today is for that to be taken away from the Federal Government.

Just to clarify, the individual decisions about how bids are structured is up to individual agencies; is that correct?

You said in your testimony that you are not here out of an anti-union bias, that this isn't about union; this is about the best use of taxpayer dollars.

I hope in the future that, though committee is certainly going to be used occasionally to advance the political imperatives of the majority party, that the other side gets a chance to put their best evidence on.

So I hear a lot of talk from my Republican friends and from my conservative friends about how the government should run more like a business.

I think we need to tone down the level of rhetoric here when we're talking about an Executive order that simply asks individual agencies to consider PLAs when appropriate.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add the following new section: SEC. 845. CONSIDERATION AND…

The amendment before the House now is a relatively simple one. We have, over the last 10 years, lost 42,000 factories in this country. We have lost 5 million jobs in manufacturing. And we've had a long discussion here in this Congress over…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Connecticut will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 26 printed in…

I will make three quick points in response. First, the amendment does not require that contractor to be debarred. It just simply allows for the possibility of debarment if they have significantly undersold or oversold, frankly, the amount…

I think this is a very important debate to have to show who is really focusing on the best use of taxpayer dollars for the creation of U.S. jobs. I appreciate the opportunity to have this debate on the floor of the House. I yield back the…

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