Greg Ganske

I want to salute the passion of the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young) and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mica) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Lipinski). I know how much all of…

The events of yesterday, September 11, are forever seared into our minds as with branding irons. We grieve for the victims and their families. We pray for them. Let the word go forth to our enemies. We are united in our resolve to avenge…

In preempting State law, the Norwood amendment goes beyond conduct that involves negligent medical judgment to a particular patient's case. The amendment made by virtue of the words 'based on' stipulate that State malpractice law does not…

Let me just read to the gentleman a statement by Ari Fleischer today on this issue. The question to him was: Republicans and Democrats believe that the deal struck between Mr. Norwood and the President would abrogate State laws on…

So he stands by his statement that HMOs are treated better in his amendment than others. Now, is it the gentleman's understanding that his bill would abrogate State laws on patients' rights?

Here is what two law professors from New Jersey say: ``In preempting State law, the Norwood amendment goes beyond conduct that involves negligent medical judgment to a particular patient's case. The amendment may, by virtue of the words…

The underlying Ganske-Dingell bill does have access provisions that I think are bipartisan, for instance, 100 percent deductibility for the self-insured and other small business provisions to help increase access. There will be an…

I wish very much that we had more time to see the language of the Norwood amendment so people could fully understand it. I intend to support the rule. I understand fully how my colleagues on the other side of the aisle very well are upset…

I believe there are ethical considerations that enter to the creation of an embryo for research purposes, and that is why I will support the Weldon bill. And I will vote against the Greenwood substitute.

And would the gentleman say that the reason for that is that his bill is focusing primarily on the initial creation of this blastocyst or the equivalent of a fertilized egg and the problems that that would have because we would be…

I wrote an op ed piece that said, ``Let me make my position absolutely clear. I oppose the cloning of human beings. I favor Federal funding of stem cell research. The potential this research has to cure disease and alleviate human…

But there is nothing in the gentleman's amendment that would prevent the FDA from intercepting that shipment, that drug that she had ordered, and testing it, just like they would do if she had ordered it from a retailer in the United…

Okay. Now, then, we had hearings in my committee, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, talking about how there are some counterfeit drugs that get into the market. These hearings primarily focused on some very expensive drugs, like growth…

That would mean, for instance, that a citizen in Minnesota could cross the border into Canada with a prescription and get it filled there, or a citizen in Texas or Arizona or New Mexico could cross the border and get a prescription filled…

Now, the difference, the reason that we have these very high prices in United States, as versus, say, Switzerland, is because we cannot reimport those drugs from Switzerland into the United States because we have a Federal law that…

But it is a fair statement that the prices are significantly lower for the very same prescription drugs that are made in the United States that are sent overseas, that they are significantly lower, sometimes half as much or even a quarter…

I want to just pin this down. The gentleman would say it is fair to say that there are many countries in the world where the prices are significantly less than they are in the United States; even though the drugs are exactly the same, they…

This is not complicated, it is simple. People are either for tax relief, or they are not. This bill provides tax relief for families with children, for married couples, for farmers, for small businesspeople. Mr. Speaker, when the year 2011…

I notice the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sandlin) and I want to thank him for his great work that he has done on patient protection. The gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Berry) has done a wonderful job on this issue, too. We have truly worked…

I must give a lot of credit to C-SPAN, because it is bringing democracy into millions and millions of homes every day and has opened up the political process more than ever before. Sometimes I will give a special order and I will…

I hope that one of the questions that is asked Vice President Gore and Governor Bush is what would be their position on antitrust. I, too, feel like I am a member of the Teddy Roosevelt wing of the Republican Party, a progressive wing that…

Reclaiming my time, here is another loophole in the Senate GOP bill. Who gets to select that external reviewer according to the Republican plan in the Senate? On page 47, the plan gets to select that, quote, independent reviewer. That…

Yes, Mr. Speaker, I am supporting the gentleman on his bill. I wish he would have supported me on mine, but he did not. But I understand the commitment of the gentleman when I asked him to support the bill he said I want to approach this…

So it would be the gentleman's contention that since Congress is indicating now that they think that there is a problem, our leadership does too, that there is a problem with HMO abuses, that for those who think, well, let the market do…