John Larson

Our overarching concerns with China who consistently retaliates when the United States brings an issue to the WTO for enforcement.

They feel that we write tax policies that make it easier for people to go overseas, and then we end up in trade agreements that further hurt labor here at home.

I think a lot of the angst comes from both the implementation of trade agreements with unenforceable provisions, aka such as the labor provisions in NAFTA.

I want to commend Erik Paulsen, who led a letter earlier this year, along with myself, to the President.

We hope to have him up to Connecticut.

We are concerned about the EU ban on United States shellfish.

I had an opportunity to meet with the Greater Hartford Labor Board and they posed a series of questions.

On March 5, 2014--I was not present for rollcall votes 93-98 due to an event in Connecticut with President Barack Obama. If I had been present for these votes, I would have voted: ``nay'' on rollcall vote 93, ``nay'' on rollcall vote 94…

I thank the leader. I would point out, in history there are often iconic pictures. One has to wonder in looking at the pictures that grace museums across this country: That man who set a torch to be passed to another generation, could he…

We come up with a private sector initiative.

If Democrats were to have their way in health care we would have had Medicare for all or a single-payer system.

I want to commend Governor Malloy and Lieutenant Governor Wyman, who have headed that up with Kevin Counihan.

I want to thank Congressman John Larson and Senators Lieberman and Blumenthal for their tireless support of this critical and important initiative.

I also want to extend an invitation to you and members of the committee to come see vintage baseball.

This was a place in Coltsville, as it is called, where not only did they come up with the concept of the assembly line and interchangeable parts.

I can't tell you how important this is to the State of Connecticut.

Do you stand with your country? Do you stand for your country? Or do you want to take it down this evening? Stand up for your country. Stand up for America. Stand with us this evening and keep this government going, in the name of fairness.

That's what had me so angry last night. And that's why -- and I think that's what America feels. They want to see us sitting down together and solving these problems. It's not that difficult.

You know, the White House isn't willing to negotiate. They're willing to sit down, as the president has said, on any aspect of Obamacare. What they're not willing to do is shut down the government and have a gun pointed to their head and…

Do you stand for your country? Or do you want to take it down?

We have an opportunity to take the very best of public health, the very best of science, technology, and innovation.

The goal here is to repeal. There is no substitute, there is no replacement.

I thank the gentleman. I see that our time has expired. I thank the Speaker, and we thank everyone for the opportunity to lay out this case of coordinated care and cooperation, reducing our national debt, and securing Medicare for our…

The policies that promote domestic development of oil and natural gas including access to offshore federal areas that have been kept off-limits could create 1 million new jobs and generate $127 billion in revenue to the federal government.

Chairman Ryan, Ranking Member Van Hollen and distinguished members of the Committee on the Budget, it is an honor to speak with you today about America's new opportunity--the economic growth and employment being fueled by our country's…