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I rise tonight to fully endorse and authorize the use of force as directed by the President of this great Nation. Now is the time to lead the most extensive campaign again terrorism this world has ever seen, to annihilate those sources of…
I support this resolution to condemn these terrorists. Our hearts are broken for the loss of life. We must condemn this act. We have to treat our wounded. We pray for the mortal souls of the victims, for peace and grace of the family…
this is not the ideal process I would have designed for this debate today. I am disappointed that some of my colleagues have allowed their passionate feelings about process to lead them into making dubious statements about substance…
The key word here is ``may.'' We do not believe that it does that. We do not intend for it to do that. And I do not intend for it to do that when we have the opportunity to get into conference.
Because there is no way that you can make it exactly the same between the physician and the HMO, I do not believe. If the gentleman is talking about the rebuttable presumption, and I presume he is, what I would say to him there is that I…
I stand by the fact that if an insurance company does exactly what they are told to do by a group of physicians in the external review model, then we have to encourage them to offer the treatment and not put them in a position so that they…
I believe in my soul that the President of the United States does, in fact, want a bill to protect patients. I do not have any doubt about it. He has told me that on many occasions, all the way back to governor. I also respect the office…
Mr. Chairman, it is interesting to follow the previous speaker, because medical savings accounts hold the best promise for allowing Americans to break out of managed care entirely and take control of their own health care for the first…
Today we approve important legislation in honor of Paul Coverdell, a sterling example of what a U.S. Senator should be about. And this measure we pass is more than a gesture, it is legislation of substance. I believe Senator Coverdell…
Mr. Chairman, we all want to do whatever we can do to lower the prescription drug costs for patients, and the sponsors of this amendment obviously intend to do just that. But there is more to this than just lowering the cost. The…
Mr. Chairman, I will close this up by making an appeal to the good folks on the other side. I know that they are big defenders of the disability education program, as well they should be. This program was passed by Congress to address real…
I do not look like I have been rolled, and I do not feel like I have been rolled; and we will get a patients protection bill out. But it will not do any good if my colleagues allow this standard to go through that OSHA is trying to put…
the previous speaker from the Democratic side made the point very nicely that if you will not have onerous rules, the workforce today, the employers today recognize the value of having workforce protections, and they have indeed. There is…
This is not an issue about basically ergonomics and workforce problems with repetitive motion, this is an issue about a rule that is absolutely awful. It is about a rule that will stop repetitive motion injuries by making sure people…
I just want to point out this does not repeal anything. This is us standing up as the Congress of the United States and saying this Federal agency wrote a bad rule. We have let them get away with this over and over again. This does not…
since supposedly Republicans are not interested in reason or science, one might conclude that we have not read the study done by the National Academy of Sciences and maybe others have not, either. Let me just give my colleagues one little…
I think we ought to vote this amendment down. Is this about money? Of course it is about money. People who are going broke are concerned about that. I have been involved in managed care a few years. I can tell the Members right now it is a…
Mr. Chairman, I claim part of the time in opposition due to the fact that there is not enough time to discuss this very important issue, but I support the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis). We need to grant…
I feel very, very passionately about that. But I also want to say that there are good friends and others in this room who feel passionately that we should, and that is the beauty and the wonder of this debate. It has brought together such…
I rise reluctantly to oppose my friend, the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Gibbons). But I do admire a worthy opponent, and he most assuredly has been that. I also find it very interesting that I rise and agree with both of the gentlemen from…
this government offered a comprehensive employment contract to our military retirees. As a former member of the armed services, I was personally presented the package in the 1960s. I remember the sales pitch quite well, for the Army was…
But today I would like to bring attention to a more specific injustice, one that is not addressed by the managed care reform legislation under consideration by the House-Senate conferees committee. Mr. Speaker, before this session is out…
Every year since coming to Congress in 1995, I have made a point to bring to our attention the sacrifices made by our veterans to defend our country. Each year, we call for our Nation to honor those who have served. Yet each year, we…
I certainly support the conference committee taking action on managed care reform as soon as possible, as Members on both sides of the aisle would agree to. But we do have to ask ourselves why are we bringing this motion before the House…
in a few days this House is going to vote on an issue that will impact the health of every family in this country. The managed care lobby will do their best to confuse the Members of this body as to the real effect of the Bipartisan…
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