I rise today in support of my amendment that is included in this en bloc amendment. It includes my language, which encourages the President of the United States to order that the U.S. flag be flown at the American outpost in Haiti. It is…

The University of Georgia is the first land grant college in the United States. A lot of people don't know that. The Graduate School of the University of Georgia is celebrating its centennial in June, as both speakers have just mentioned…

Now this is the head of CMS, who is going to be heading up the comparative effectiveness rationing panel. I call it a rationing panel.

Tonight the Doctors Caucus, people who are physicians, and those of us who are involved in health care on the Republican side, are going to be talking a little bit tonight about ObamaCare. We've talked about ObamaCare a lot over the last…

In the State of Georgia, they've just finished their session, a 40-day session. The general assembly just finished about 2 weeks ago. It took 40 legislative days, all the way to May to finish 40 legislative days, and it is because of the…

But this comparative effectiveness research that was started with a nonstimulus bill back a little over a year ago--that's when Nancy Pelosi and company funded the comparative effectiveness research--what the American people need to…

And I was talking to a leader of a large transportation organization, and he told me that they've studied ObamaCare and they've decided that they're going to do exactly what you said. They're going to push all of their employees into the…

But it's critical the American people understand that it's not put in place completely, and the most onerous parts of ObamaCare are yet to come, and it's a few years out. So we can repeal ObamaCare. We can replace it with something that…

Now, Dr. Fleming, you better explain about retro spectroscope because a lot of people haven't heard about that. They have heard of a colonoscope or sigmoidoscope, but you are not talking about the same thing.

The Congressional Budget Office has stated that the law will raise the individual market premiums by an average of $2,100 per family, raise them. They are going to go up above what would have been if we did nothing. But the cost is going…

Say that again, please, so people can understand, because we just saw a report. I don't know if you saw the report, because we haven't talked about it. There was a report just recently where businesses that were going to hire new…

They are going to use age as the means of trying to determine how to spend dollars. That means that one of my patients who is 75 that has diabetes versus another one of my patients that's 35 with diabetes, they are going to decide whether…

The overwhelming majority, 90 percent of employers, believe that health care reform will increase their organization's health care costs. They're right. I don't know why it's not 100 percent, because it's going to; but 90 percent of…

One of our constituents in northeast Georgia in my 10th Congressional District just wrote us a note saying that he is a small businessman, and he said that his small business was going to survive this economic downturn. But the way it was…

But what you are just saying is great information, so that the American people can understand and hopefully our Democratic colleagues will understand, the cost curve goes up, higher than if we did nothing. In fact, this new estimate does…

We have heard over and over again from our Democratic colleagues, particularly in leadership, that the cost curve would go down. In other words, that the spending, the total level of spending, the total level of spending in this country on…

Thank you, Dr. Fleming. We have just a couple of minutes left, and maybe I will get back to you in a second. But I want to tell Madam Speaker and the American people that Republicans have been charged by our Democrat colleagues--and I've…

The American people understand what you are having to say about balancing budgets because they have to do that every day in their own home and businesses. My State of Georgia has to balance its budget, our State government does. Many…

Not one Republican voted for that bill. We just heard from CBO just this last week... Oops, we made a mistake. It's going to cost at least $115 billion more than we first estimated. One hundred fifteen billion dollars more. That's not a…

During the 5-minute speeches just a few minutes ago, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte) was showing all of us this poster that he graciously made up: Where's the budget? That is what we will be talking about tonight because we…

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Jordan, you're exactly right. And I'd like for you to talk about the Republican balanced budget that we introduced last year and again you're working on it this year. But you brought up the President's budget. Todd…

The budget resolution simply sets forth an annual framework of priorities, sets forth the framework for taxes and spending. It's one of the few pieces of legislation that Congress must pass annually. We're not seeing that happen. Since…

It is the most basic responsibility of governing. They are not governing. They are not doing what they should. If you can't budget, you cannot govern. They are not governing. They are being irresponsible. The American public deserve better.

That's absolutely correct. In fact, an attempt was made to pass a budget. Through our legislative process, they did all of the things. A budget resolution was presented, an attempt was made to pass a budget resolution. And only four times…

I just wanted to put in my two cents about the question you just asked about why the Budget Committee hasn't passed out a budget, why the House hasn't passed a budget. We have an April 15 deadline by law. A budget is supposed to be passed…