Phil Gingrey

The gentlelady is eloquent but she's wrong on this issue, and I will yield to her.

To put it in really simple terms, and I know I am beyond my time, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate it, I will yield back, but it is like closing the barn door after the horse is long gone, so I thank you very much for that response.

Encouraging drug development to combat infections that arise from Gram-negative pathogens like Iraqibacter is an appropriate role for Congress and the FDA.

Antibiotic resistance is a threat to global public health as well as United States national security.

The need for new antibiotics is well established and beyond question.

The reauthorization of the FDA user fee program presents Congress with the opportunity to improve upon the current U.S. drug and device approval pathway.

Does this interim rule in your opinion support President Obama's promise that workers, including the 750,000 of the Catholic Hospital Association, could keep what they have if they like it?

We should agree that conscience clauses should be protected.

Why must President Obama insist that the price for healthcare reform be giving up the civil liberties through an individual mandate and the religious liberties that our Founding Fathers guaranteed us under the Constitution.

Are you aware that President Obama promised every American that they could 'keep what they have if they liked it' when referring to health insurance?

I want to, at the outset, tell you that I am for closing this office down and not leaving a remnant, a crack in the door, if you will.

I will admit to being gleeful this morning. It is hard not to be gleeful when we just rescued $80 billion from a Democratic sink hole.

hundreds of millions of taxpayers are owed an explanation as to how they were swindled out of $535 million in loan guarantee money.

the Federal Government tries to do the right thing in many instances--I would hope in all instances and it seems that far too much of the time they screw it up.

Yes, we can pay the interest on the debt. We can renew the $500 billion worth of bonds that are coming due. We can mail out our Social Security checks. We can make sure those Medicare claims are honored. We can pay our military. We can…

The fact that this reality did not raise a red flag for you when drafting and reviewing your testimony here today is troubling, to say the least.

Patients, industry and the FDA can benefit from a more predictive regulatory framework.

So it appears that the failure of this product is not due to 510(k) process but to regulatory inaction by our own FDA.

Dr. Gingrey compared the Republican plan for Medicare unfavorably to 'throwing grandma off a cliff.'

Well, Madam Secretary, I agree with the first part of your response. It should be between the doctor and the patient and you don't get that with IPAB.

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.

In the press, Secretary Sebelius has often chided opponents of IPAB for suggesting that it has the power to restrict access to physicians' services or life-saving drugs and treatments, otherwise known as rationing.

I cannot believe that the individual healthcare consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as healthcare.

Madam Secretary, if President Obama had stated publicly that IPAB is a major plank of his plan to save Medicare and you are saying that IPAB, it is just a backstop to Congress coming up with a plan, should the American people infer from…

I want to make it very clear in starting my opening statement that this bill that I have proffered, H.R. 122 which you will consider, in no way, shape, or form takes away any Federal employee's rights to collective bargaining.