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Tom Price

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  1. I appreciate those comments, because they are right on where we need to get to. The problem is that politics is the art of the possible so what we have got working here in this Chamber is the possibility of appropriate reform right now. The accountability and disclosure that you mentioned, I think it is important to mention these numbers, Mr. Speaker, because they are staggering. The American people need to know that. George Soros, we have talked about, $27 million. Peter Lewis, $23.9 million. This is personal money coming into campaigns that the American people don't know anything about. There is no way for them to get that information. Herbert and Marian Sandler, $14 million. Stephen Bing you mentioned, but you didn't mention the number. The number is $13.9 million. That is money, Mr. Speaker, that is being used to influence elections and nobody knows about it. When you and I, Congressman McHenry, have our elections, what do we do? We put on everything that we have got, Paid for by Price for Congress, or Paid for by McHenry for Congress. We have to disclose that. And that is appropriate. What happens when they spend nearly $80 million? Nobody knows. I would like to yield now to a good friend and colleague who is not a freshman, who has been around here for a little while, but he is a good friend and he has excellent insight into this and so many other issues and is truly interested, Mr.…2 sources2006govinfo.gov
  2. I thank you so much for yielding and for your leadership on this issue. I want to also thank once again our leadership, the Speaker and majority leader, majority whip, conference Chair, for allowing us to share with the House and with the American people tonight this exciting, commonsense suburban agenda. And it's not just for the suburban area, but the problems and challenges that we have in suburban America oftentimes precede those that we see elsewhere. And so it is so very important that we move this forward, the commonsense suburban agenda. As I mentioned before, folks in our districts are concerned about all the big issues, the huge issues, the war on terror, the crisis of illegal immigration; but they are also concerned about the issues of school safety. They are also concerned about the issues of making certain that their children are safe when they go on the Internet. They are also concerned about the importance of having private personal medical records and the ease of being able to take them from one doctor to another. They are terribly concerned about making certain that we preserve our Nation's open space and green space. And they are concerned about the ability that they have to assist their children in succeeding, whether it be through starting a business or providing a college education for them. So I commend the gentleman from Illinois so highly for his leadership on this issue.…2 sources2006govinfo.gov
  3. I appreciate those comments so much, and I appreciate you reminding me about the Deficit Reduction Act. It was in my notes, and I wanted to make certain we pointed that out. We had that bill passed earlier this year in January. It would save the American people $40 billion.2 sources2006govinfo.gov
  4. I appreciate once again the opportunity to come before the House of Representatives tonight and bring the latest version of the Official Truth Squad. You have heard a lot of information over the last hour, much of which, in terms of its tenor and its tone, was the genesis for the Official Truth Squad, because what we as Republican freshmen Members of Congress determined about a year or a little over a year ago was that there was an awful lot of disinformation and misinformation and distortion and demagoguery and division, attempting to divide the Nation in such a way that it did a disservice to everybody. And, Mr. Speaker, you have heard an awful lot of that over the last hour. We have got some very serious things to talk about tonight, but I wanted to spend a few moments and just try to lower the temperature a little bit, try to decrease the calamity that you have just heard. You have heard a lot of discussion about all sorts of issues, mostly national security issues. You have heard some claims about the 9/11 Commission and how none of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission have been proposed or adopted by Congress. But what the Official Truth Squad is all about is about truth. It is about fact. It is about real things. And one of our favorite quotes comes from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had just a great quote. He said that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.2 sources2006govinfo.gov
  5. many of us in this Chamber find it absolutely incomprehensible that there are those who believe that the best course of action in the face of a determined enemy is to tell that enemy that we are less than determined. Yet that is exactly what the Iraq supplemental financing bill does. What message do we send our brave military men and women when we won't guarantee them the resources and equipment that they need without including a litany of restrictive and arbitrary timetables? What will our soldiers on the front lines of this war think when they hear that salmon fisheries and spinach growers are being used to buy votes? This Iraq supplemental bill is just one more step in what has become a long list of unprecedented attempts by this majority to accept defeat at any cost. For those of us in Washington, we get to face this moment in the warmth and comfort of our homes and our offices. For so many Americans, they will face this moment in the harsh reality of a war zone. We must not forget what is at stake. Our military will not and the American people will not.2 sources2007govinfo.gov
  6. I want to thank my leadership for the opportunity once again to come to the floor and to shed a little light. Tonight, we are going to shed a little truth on some of the messages that we have heard just now and maybe previously here in Washington. This is another edition of The Official Truth Squad. The Official Truth Squad is a group of Republicans who desire to make certain that some sense of factual information is provided, Mr. Speaker, as we talk about the issues that are dealt with on the floor of this House. We have a favorite, a number of favorite quotes. One of them is from Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Senator Moynihan said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts. Mr. Speaker, it is curious to hear my friends on the other side of the aisle and their righteous indignation, the righteous indignation that they have about so many various things, particularly tonight when they talked about spending and funding the troops.2 sources2007govinfo.gov
Sep 26, 2017

What I want to say to the speaker, don't you fly over our country in your luxury jet, and lecture us on what it means to be an American.

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Sep 21, 2017

The president has made it clear his Administration will move power out of Washington and return it to the American people.

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Jun 14, 2017

We've turned physicians of this land into data entry clerks, and it is literally driving physicians out of practice.

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Jun 14, 2017

Make certain that every single American, men, women, rich, poor, old, young, have the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their families.

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Jun 14, 2017

A victory for the American people.

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Jun 14, 2017

We have, in essence, transferred over the past 30 to 40 years the treatment of mental health individuals... to a remarkably substandard care in our criminal justice system.

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Jun 14, 2017

I appreciate your passion for this. This is a real concern because, as you know, across the country, especially in rural areas, individuals that have provided this service to their communities for years and years, oftentimes decades, have…

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Jun 7, 2017

I believe that women who desire to have access to birth control ought to have access to birth control.

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May 4, 2017

I think it's absolutely vital that victims of -- domestic violence and others, anybody, we need a system in place that ensures that individuals are either not priced out of the market --

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Apr 18, 2017

the prescribing practices of medical providers treating pain has contributed to the opioid overdose crisis the Nation now faces.

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Apr 18, 2017

So wouldn't we as a compassionate society step back and say, 'OK, that's a real problem and we need to address it.' That's what we're trying to do.

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Apr 18, 2017

I believe firmly that the bill that has been discussed and that was put before Congress is a significantly better program than the one that we currently have.

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Mar 12, 2017

We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower price and give them the choices that they want, for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family…

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Mar 8, 2017

Medicaid is a broken system. Anybody who is in the practice of medicine knows Medicaid is a totally broken system.

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Mar 8, 2017

We were promised when the Affordable Care Act was passed... we are going to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare.

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Mar 8, 2017

Nobody ought to be priced out of the market because of a preexisting illness or injury.

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Jan 31, 2017

Further, President Trump's recent immigration executive order runs afoul of American values and our constitution by essentially creating a religious test for entry into the United States and denying due process to green card holders who…

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Jan 24, 2017

Representative Price's record as a legislator casts serious doubt on his ability to perform this role.

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Jan 23, 2017

If I am confirmed, the responsibility that we will have is to enforce the law of the land, and we will do so.

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Jan 23, 2017

I think it is imperative that we provide the greatest amount of opportunity for individual seniors to be able to gain access to the drugs that they need.

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Jan 23, 2017

What I hope is that we do not need a mandate for anybody so that they are able to purchase the kind of coverage that they want, not that the government forces them to buy.

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Jan 23, 2017

One major lesson learned from welfare reform signed into law by President Clinton is that the American people, when given the opportunity, work exceptionally hard.

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Jan 23, 2017

Our commitment is to make certain that every single American has access to the highest-quality coverage and care possible.

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