Nancy L. Johnson: “Such a public servant is a gift to be treasured in a democracy.”

I thank the chairman; and I want to congratulate my colleagues, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Portman) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin), who have long been leaders on complicated pension issues, and to the whole conference…

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.

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…

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?