This bipartisan effort drew on research and economic status documenting that investing in our youngest citizens yields high returns.

I have been tremendously impressed with all of your testimonies for a number of reasons.

I think that we should reconsider this misguided approach.

our experiences in Illinois with the Affordable Care Act have not been automatic, but our experiences have come as a result of a large number of people believing in the program, believing that it will work, and then working to make sure…

Thank you for the Medicaid waiver for Cook County in the State of Illinois.

I am a big fan of home-visiting programs and community health centers.

I commend the President for his focus on increasing work and opportunity within the budget.

I have advanced similar legislation solutions for years, and am pleased to see the Administration embrace these changes.

Based on her recommendations and those of other experts, this last week, I introduced legislation to help every State better protect youth in foster care from being victims of sex trafficking.

I was pleased to be joined in introducing that bill by my colleague Lloyd Doggett of Texas.

We need to do more to protect kids like Wendy Coffield, and that is why we are all here today.

I expect the House will act on all of those bills, and I am confident we will be able to get our legislation to the President's desk.

When we get the lead Republican and the lead Democrat on a subcommittee to agree on a bill, that is usually a formula for success.

I have held the position for quite a while that it could and should be used for medicinal purposes.

I think that my State, the State of Illinois, has a shameful record.

It seems to me that talking about reducing hours that people work so that they cannot experience a quality of life that simply becomes desirable to me is not something that we should be encouraging businesses to do in our country.

What the IG community is most concerned about are the FISMA audits and other audits and evaluations and reviews we do of information technology, information security systems of our agencies.

I really think that all of the members of this committee agree that waste in government and unnecessary spending is unacceptable.

President Obama made it a priority to reduce improper payments when he took office, and we should be pleased to see that over the past 3 years the Federal Government has avoided making $47 billion in improper payments.

You can't keep your insurance, even if you liked it. You can't keep your doctor, even if you have been seeing him for the last 30 or 40 years.

Before we passed the Affordable Care Act, there were about 50 million people in the United States without health insurance.

I just came from a markup in Ways and Means, where, on a vote of 39 to 0, we voted to do a fix for three months of the SGR.

We finally banned insurance companies from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions.

There will always be forces aligned against progress, against equality, and against basic human dignity.

Obamacare raided $700 billion from Medicare, including $300 billion from Medicare Advantage alone, to pay for the ACA.