Reclaiming my time, and I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, as I listened to the gentleman from Ohio talk and to spread this philosophy that somehow, first, there are principles that they've been trying to drag back and establish rights…

Just as I look at the statistics here, and I see the 91 percent of survival rate of prostate cancer in America, that means out of 10 patients, nine will live. I look at the ratio in the United Kingdom, 50 percent. That means out of two…

And because they had had uncertainty, they tended to overeat, and if they ate out of anxiety--not having full comfort that there would always be plenty of food for them there, they might attend a feast or gorge themselves in those…

Reclaiming my time, and so we have seen what the data is on survival rates for cancer in the United States versus Canada and Great Britain and one other country. There is another point that has been made, I say it has been made…

We find ourselves in a unique circumstance in this Congress after over two centuries. This is likely the very first time that something is positioned to happen that the Founding Fathers never envisioned: That there would be a bill that…

It is my privilege and I'm honored to be recognized to speak here on the floor and to address you tonight. Having listened to my friend and colleague from Ohio talk about the high moral calling that there is for them to pass socialized…

I would submit that in Texas or California or Georgia or Iowa, there is likely to have been, I will say certain to have been, and likely to still be, individuals born in those particular States that never participated in a health care…

I thank the gentleman from Texas. I point out an additional 5\1/2\ million people resulting unemployed over this bill, but it provides access, according to calculations from the Congressional Budget Office, to health insurance policies for…

I rise in opposition to H. Con. Res. 248. It is not with disrespect for my colleague from Ohio, but I read the resolution, and to me it reads as a retreat resolution. I think about the times that America has been characterized as…

First, Mr. Speaker, I would say a couple of words about the 10th amendment and those rights that are reserved for the States or to the people respectively. What are the States doing wrong? How is it that the States, that now 31 of them…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate your attention to the decorum in the Chamber. I do revere this institution that we all are a part of. And to pick up where I left off if I may, there is a flow to this economy that is impossible to…

First, we learned last Thursday that Republicans have a lot of good ideas. We also learned that many of those good ideas are suppressed by the iron-fisted gavel of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Also, as I looked at the event…

I take us to the Declaration of Health Care Independence, as has been spoken about by us, the ``New Rules of the Road.'' I wanted to point out that of these 10 provisions, first, there are six items here on what went wrong. And then I…

Reclaiming my time, and I thank the gentleman from Georgia for his contribution to this document and the thought process that this defines. If there are those in this House of Representatives who have objections to the positions that are…

In reclaiming my time, I thank the doctor from Georgia. I was just thinking what it would be like if you'd sit around your card club at night and you'd deal out a deck of cards, 52, and for every one of those cards, this man has delivered…

I appreciate being recognized to address you here on the floor of the House. And in the aftermath of the summit yesterday, the February 25th health care summit that took place, and over the 7-plus hours from gavel in to gavel out, the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate being recognized finally here on the floor of the House of Representatives. Frankly, it's astonishing to me that a fellow Member of Congress has so little confidence in things that he says are facts…

Well, I hope, as I reclaim, that what we see tomorrow is more than a dog and pony show. I hope it's not just a show that's designed to resolve the two things that seem to be giving Democrats and the President heartburn, which are the very…

Free enterprise capitalism is what defeated the Soviet Union and is what ended the Cold War, because our economy could outproduce their economy, and they eventually collapsed. I don't know why we are trying to emulate them.

I think there are two points, Mr. Speaker, that need to be addressed by Democrats. And these are significant points of vulnerability where there has been a persistent criticism from the public. They have made the point that of all of the…

Well, it's truly not bipartisanship; it's only the show of bipartisanship designed for two things: so they can say, Well, we've negotiated with Republicans on C-SPAN. We didn't shut them out. That's really it.

Reclaiming my time, of course that is what it takes to get the votes for a bad deal. That is what the American people know, that's what the Tea Party patriots know. I would go further. When you start out and you have a good idea. Let's say…

Reclaiming my time, I will bring this back to that, that time they had 51 votes counted in the Senate on the health care bill. I went back to the Midwest, and I usually fly into Omaha. Well, Omaha, of course, is a central metropolitan area…

Reclaiming my time, I can't name a single one. I haven't looked over the list of the Democrats but that would be quite unusual. It would be unusual to see Democrats in there negotiating a vote of ``no'' on the bill. I'd be very surprised…

Wouldn't you want to know what their objections are? I would think that would be important. Bart Stupak on the pro-life amendment worked very closely with Smith and Pennsylvania Representative Joe Pitts. They worked very hard to pass, and…