Hank Johnson

I have one more point that I needed to make about this abolition, this abolishment of the Affordable Care Act plan that has been submitted. A foundation of their plan is the demise of the individual mandate that requires people to purchase…

I just can't get out of my mind, Mr. Speaker, those words of President Trump that everybody would have insurance and that it would be far less expensive and far better than what we have today. The Republicans have campaigned incessantly…

What happened 43, 44 years ago during the Watergate hearings with that seminal question that everyone keeps asking, ``What did the President know, and when did he know it?'' and in the words of Yogi Berra: ``It's deja vu all over again.''…

The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford), my friend, opposes the bill because the CBO scoring process, which came up with a no-cost estimate for this bill, the contention is that that CBO study was insufficient. Well, I am sure that…

I was looking at my congressional calendar, and I noticed that this year we are working in Washington, D.C., more than we have under the past 5 years of the rein of the Republicans. We have been the most do-nothingest Congresses on record…

I hosted a community listening session where my fellow citizens and I listened to the personal experiences of Muslims, refugees, and other immigrants in the aftermath of the President's Muslim/immigrant ban and ICE dragnet crackdown on…

Those are the issues that the American people certainly would be interested in knowing, what is happening with their property. But instead of creating a jobs bill, what we are dealing with here is a measure that would repeal a Department…

Today I rise to voice my strong opposition to H.J. Res. 57, which is another Republican proposal to erode the oversight and enforcement authority of the Department of Education. In 2015, Congress responded to the voice of the American…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution and the complete dismantlement of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order. Among other worker protection benefits, President Obama's…

I stand in strong opposition to H.J. Res. 38, the resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule. I would like to express both my support of the Stream Protection Rule as…

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 36, strike line 10 and all that follows through page 37, line 9. Page 38, strike line 11 and all that…

The bottom line is that my friends on the other side of the aisle, in their quest to satisfy the big businesses that fund these campaigns, don't like regulations that protect the health, safety, and well-being of Americans, including…

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Graves of Louisiana). The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

I appreciate my friend Mr. Young's amendment which establishes a 90-day compliance period for guidance documents when, in the underlying legislation, it makes clear that during any compliance period for guidance it is nonbinding. So I rise…

To say that this amendment stops judicial activism is stretching things a little bit, I believe. This opens the floodgates to judicial activism, the Goodlatte amendment, so that is why I oppose the amendment. It revises title II of the…

I think what I gather is that we need better regulations. Therefore, we have to provide more requirements on OIRA with respect to the regulations it issues, while at the same time claiming that regulations are bad and we have unelected…

Congressman Gerald Connolly wanted it to be known for the record that agency employees are already barred under appropriations bills from engaging in publicity or propaganda. Agency employees are specifically barred from engaging in…

Any time I hear the name ``Mercatus Center'' I think of pro-big business, antiregulation. This amendment imposes even more paralyzing rulemaking requirements to the more than 60 analytical and procedural requirements that are already…

I thank the ranking member and the chairman. I rise in opposition to H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017. I have a number of concerns with many provisions of this voluminous page, this 82-page bill. It has not gone through…

It is already covered in current law, so why do we need this amendment? Well, it is a messaging piece to be able to say to the listening audience that we support small business. Well, gosh, I think we have answered that question here on…

I oppose this amendment which would prohibit Federal agencies from making any public communications that would promote a pending regulatory action. We can all agree that the rulemaking process should be transparent, flexible, and…

This amendment would require agencies to provide a detailed economic assessment prior to certifying that a rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small business entities. I oppose this bill for a number…

Have Members ever heard of any legislation that purports to take power back from unelected bureaucrats and then places it right back in the hands of a bureaucrat in the same piece of legislation? This is ridiculous. Title IV of H.R. 5…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr. Chaffetz The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I respectfully claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.