Nancy L. Johnson

remember, adoption of HIPAA was a multi-year process, very controversial, very difficult, 50,000 comments just on the regulations. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman will suspend. In debate on a motion to recommit, time is not…

My legislation explicitly does not change HIPAA. The behavior described of hacking in and revealing what would be under HIPAA is a fine of $250,000 and 10 years in jail. So HIPAA is there. It protects our privacy. What this bill does is to…

I yield myself 40 seconds. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are acting as if we had technology that, if we only had the money, we could implement. That just isn't so. Secretary Levitt and Dr. Brailer have led a…

I claim time to say we accept the amendment. It is a very thoughtful amendment and an important one, and we thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Towns).

we certainly are willing to accept the gentleman's amendment. It is a very thoughtful and important one.

yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Hulshof). (Mr. HULSHOF asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I thank you, but I thank you also for a very thoughtful bill in very tough times, truly one that does support safer communities and one that does help prepare our young people for a global environment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the…

let us be clear. Terrorism, as a method of achieving political goals and settling political differences, is intolerable to the civilized world. Inevitably, terrorists will gain access to chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons. Never…

I recognize myself for 1\1/ 2\ minutes. I do find it really quite remarkable that my colleagues from the other side of the aisle, who spent literally months scaring seniors away from signing up for this benefit, claiming it was too…

I would be happy to respond. Actuaries estimate things differently. The CMS actuaries estimate that 1.1 million won't sign up if we move the deadline. In other words, they will lose the pressure they have today to sign up by May 15 and the…

in an era when Americans' dependence on federal entitlements is increasing, when the number of Americans filing for personal bankruptcy rose an astounding 30 percent in the past year, and when our national savings rate is at its lowest…

on rollcall No. 79 I was inadvertently detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute No. 7 Offered by Mr. George Miller of California The Acting CHAIRMAN (Mr. Bass). The pending business…

I absolutely do. I think we are facing the possibility of physicians fleeing the Medicare program and creating a real access problem for seniors to physicians of their choice. But acceding to the Senate position is not going to fix it; it…

but we need to do something better than the Senate position, and we certainly need to avoid the additional 2 percent cut that starts every year thereafter.

before I make the comments I rose to make, I do want to comment for those watching this debate, that when you hear the words ``tax cut,'' the great majority of that money, outside of the new tax provisions to encourage rebuilding in New…

This is a negotiation. And what you are doing is prejudging the negotiation. That is what a motion to instruct does. This motion to instruct is across so many categories that it will do damage to our ability to get the right answer in all…

would you work for an employer who told you he was going to cut your pay next year 4\1/2\ percent? Would you work for an employer who told you he was going to cut your pay every year for the next 6 years 4\1/2\ percent? Would you work for…

Connecticut seniors are signing up for the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, and many are saving hundreds and thousands of dollars. The CHOICES bus visited the senior citizens center in Plainville, Connecticut, and Thomas and…

42 million seniors can now sign up for the new voluntary Medicare drug benefit. Yesterday I was with a senior in my district, Shirley Rabinowitz, who takes 17 different prescription drugs. Let me say that again: 17 different prescription…

I was an early and fervent supporter of providing health benefits to families on welfare as they made the difficult transition to work, often to entry-level jobs not providing basic care for their children. So I appreciate the need for…

this is how we answer that little girl. We tell her the world that she is going to work in is going to be a world in which there will be better labor laws better enforced. For the very first time ever, the International Labor Organization…

does the gentleman feel confident even without any placeholder, should, say, the Senate fail to provide a placeholder, as they have in the past, that we will be able to address this in conference?

the landmark Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act that this body passed in 2003 was the subject of heated rhetoric and partisan attacks at that time. Most recently, we have heard the claim that the costs of this wonderful…

A lot of seniors have, first of all, been misled to think that the discount card is the Medicare reform bill. The discount card is not the program. The discount card is only an intermediate step, and it is one that, in my district at…