Tom Price

today I call on the Speaker to open up a positive dialogue with Republicans to find SCHIP solutions that put poor kids first. House Democrats have wrapped their expansion of bureaucratic Washington-run health care in so much deception and…

As a physician, I recognize clearly the imperative of all having health insurance, and I strongly support providing low-income kids with greater access to health care coverage, which is why I support a positive bipartisan reauthorization…

I appreciate her bringing great focus to this issue, because, Mr. Speaker, if the casual observer were to give you a description of what they thought was going on here in Washington, they would say, Oh, well, they are being much more…

I represent the Sixth District of Georgia, one that is interested actively in the input of Members of Congress and the actions of government. But they have some suspicion about the actions of government. When I came to Congress, I was told…

today the new majority sadly declares politics more important than health care for our Nation's poorest children. Democrats are moving forward with a massive expansion of Washington-run health care under the auspices of helping kids. Yet…

I rise to oppose this remarkable rule, this martial-law rule. The new majority is becoming much more creative with their rule writing, and frankly it would be humorous if it weren't so serious. At the beginning of this Congress, this new…

I do, Mr. Speaker, want to talk fairly specifically about taxes because, as you know, Mr. Speaker, the general consensus out in America is that the majority party, the Democrats, are the party of tax and spend. I grew up believing that, I…

What this chart demonstrates is that the rhetoric that we hear from the other side doesn't match the action. I call it Orwellian democracy, which is that the words don't match the actions. This chart demonstrates the seven appropriations…

what a great opportunity it is to come back to the floor of the House as the designee of the minority leader, the Republican leader, and bring some issues hopefully into a little greater perspective. We come here often and try to shed a…

You can look at that and realize that the hard-earned taxpayer dollars that we are entrusted with to spend responsibly, and it was the collective wisdom of Congress over that period of time, to spend significantly greater money. You have…

This language was taken directly from your side's PAYGO language in the rule. So what I'm attempting to do is to try to provide individuals with something which they hopefully have seen before. This is the PAYGO language from the PAYGO…

This is truly a day of great sadness for our conference, for this House, for the State of Ohio and, yes, Mr. Speaker, for our Nation. Though only in my second term in Congress, I came to know and appreciate Paul Gillmor, serving on one of…

here's the bill. Here is the health care bill folks have been talking about. Do you know what's in it? Most Members don't. Under the guise of children's health, there is a hidden tax on every single private health insurance policy in the…

I wonder if my friend is aware of the fact that the letter she is submitting to the Record... has significant conflicts. Madam Speaker, I am not certain that she recognizes that, in fact, AARP... is in competition for health insurance…

I'm somewhat amused by my friend's comments. It brings to mind what I have come to describe this Congress as, and that is the Orwellian democracy that we see day in and day out. The accusation is that this side of the aisle spent too much…

once again I am amused by the comments of my good friends and colleagues on the other side. The fact of the matter is the departments that run these programs that we are addressing right here asked for $2.3 billion less than our good…

I rise and with all due respect would ask my colleagues to simply read the amendment. The amendment states, total appropriations made in this act are hereby reduced by $750 million. That is not an across-the-board cut. That allows the…

health care decisions are often the most personal and important decisions ever made, and those decisions should rightly be made by patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and insurance companies. So it's concerning that the Democrat…

this is an amendment in a little different vein. It's an amendment to increase funding in the Math and Science Partnership Program under the National Science Foundation by $2 million, and reduce by $2 million the Department management…

I think this has been a healthy presentation from this side. The muted response from the other side is understandable. When you have instituted in your budget the largest tax increase in the history of the Nation, when you continue to…

I do want to close on a positive note, and that is that there is an alternative. And the alternative, as we talk about, is patient-centered health care. And patient-centered health care, as you know, puts the opportunity and the right and…

No, it doesn't make any sense at all. It lays bare the true motive and the true philosophy, which, on the other side of the aisle, at least the true leadership who are pushing this legislation, their belief is that government knows better…

Thank you ever so much for your comments and, once again, succinctly pointing out the rationale for why it doesn't make sense for Washington to be controlling health care. And sometimes I get the question as a physician, what does it mean…

That's exactly right. That's what we saw with the previous program. It happens every time when you have a government program that potentially can supplant the private program. In 1998, 28 percent of the children in our Nation were covered…

That's exactly right. That is the crux of the matter. If everything else were equal in the system, if it were to allow for the same kind of ability for patients and families and doctors to make decisions, that might be one thing. But as we…