I thank the gentleman. For years, the territories have expressed concern with the funding levels, and I believe that PPACA was a vehicle to try to alleviate some of those concerns. My hope is that we can work together, along with Governor…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise today to engage in a colloquy with my friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. Mr. Chairman, I am clearly no fan of ObamaCare, and I know that you are…

I'm glad, sir, that you just mentioned that, because I just heard here that, no, no, it's not maybe X thousands of jobs that are going to be lost; it is X minus a few thousand jobs that are going to be lost. What? Did I just hear that? I…

It was a privilege for 2 years to be the ranking member of this subcommittee, and I will tell you that this subcommittee has never been a partisan subcommittee, and I commend Chairman Denham for keeping that tradition of focusing on the…

You're pretty much guaranteed as much as you are in this process that they're going to pass because you have the ranking member of one party and the chairman who has worked with the ranking member, they both agree, they're…

Is it not true that if this language would have been in the bill, that there's no guarantee that somebody would have not done an amendment in the Rules Committee to take it out, so that there is no more different guarantee if it was in…

Parliamentary inquiry of the Chair, if I may. The CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida will state his inquiry.

I thank the chairman for this opportunity, and I really congratulate him. This is the first time in many years, since 2009, that we've actually come to the floor with a conference report. Think about that. Before, things just kind of came…

I want to thank Chairman Camp not only for that great explanation that he just gave, but for bringing this bill to the floor. Look, I keep hearing a lot about the horrors of Colombia. A couple of facts: Because of the Andean trade pact…

It's an offensive caricature of Colombia, a democratic ally, a place that is fighting for democracy and for freedom and for due process and the rule of law. We should recognize it, commend them, thank them for being such an ally, for being…

Today I rise to honor one of our former colleagues, a woman who is really an institution in south Florida, in Florida, and in the Nation, and that is, of course, Congresswoman Carrie Meek. She was the first African American elected to the…

What the previous gentlemen did not say is that Solyndra received $500 million because they have friends in high places. Despite even people in this administration who said don't do it, they received $500 million. If that was in a…