Rod Blum

The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates the cost to U.S. businesses for regulations is approach $2,000 billion a year.

I was absolutely shocked at how untrained law enforcement was on how to handle this situation because we lost value.

Telehealth may allow rural physicians to expand their patient base and to keep dollars in the community.

Most importantly, these new technologies provide the gateway and opportunity for economic growth and job creation, particularly in rural areas.

Always remember that that connection is the first step. Before we need access to capital, they need that connection.

So we are actually running a profit. Imagine that. It has to be one of the few agencies in the Federal Government who run a profit.

It seems to them that we privatized profits and socialized losses, and I am with them.

Sometimes I have to remind my colleagues from the cities that I like food and food is not grown in grocery stores.

I don't want five mega corporations to control our food supply in this country.

More importantly, small family farms provide a living for people in places with limited opportunities.

Because 99 percent of the conversation in this town is about who is going to pay. I think 99 percent of the conversation should be how can we drive the cost down so everybody can afford it.

Over the last 4 years in Iowa, I have asked my constituents in almost every talk I have given about health care, give me an example where the Federal Government, 535 suits in Washington, D.C., have bent the cost curve down on anything.

Former President Obama followed that up and he said, 'Every single good idea to bend the cost curve down is in this bill.'

As I think about this issue, I think back to 2008-2009 and HHS Secretary then, Kathleen Sebelius, famously said, we are going to bend the cost curve down with the ACA.

It's not the Federal workers that are the problem. It's the people at the very top typically or the contractors.

We need accountability. Either the contractors made a mistake and we shouldn't pay them, which would happen in the private sector, or the government officials who signed off in the agency made a mistake and they should be terminated.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, add the following: SEC. __. EXPEDITED COMPLETION OF AUTHORIZED PROJECT FOR FLOOD…

I urge adoption of the bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Smith of Nebraska). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Blum) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

I would like to make Congresswoman Lawrence aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I see it as critically important to saving the government money and also improving the outcomes of our patients.

I thank my friend from Texas and appreciate his hard work on this important legislation.

I want to make sure that all children, regardless of their zip codes, across this nation have the opportunity to experience their own versions of the Opportunity Scholarship.

And I believe in American exceptionalism. I believe we can have both.

Because what troubles me is law enforcement tends to agree with--and I will paraphrase here--but that there is a reasonable standard of privacy, Fourth Amendment rights, when one is in their own home.