Vern Buchanan: “I am personally very concerned. In my district in Florida, my congressional district, we have over 54,000 on Medicare…”

We should be in the business here doing everything we can to help startups and help them be more successful and help entrepreneurs.

I rise to recognize Dr. John Cross, who just delivered this morning's opening prayer. John is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Sarasota and has been the pastor for many, many years. John committed his life to Christ in his…

Your work and the committee's work is huge. ... what would be your couple of big things that we can make a big difference in?

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 59, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $6,250,000) (increased by $6,250,000)''. The…