Illicit drug use is one of the most challenging difficulties facing our society.

I would simply want to hold the FAA to the language of the act passed back in February so that we safely accelerate the adoption of these UAVs into the National airspace.

They deserve that you get the system right, because they cannot wait to be served a year later.

Secretary Shinseki deserves some credit for his announcement that he has more than 40 initiatives to help VA process claims more quickly and more accurately in the future.

I hope the Secretary is successful.

You will no longer be allowed to come back again with promises of reforms a year away.

It is unacceptable that the Federal Government is doing nothing but continuing to promise what they promised before.

I do appreciate Chairman Chaffetz' continued oversight of this whole process from beginning to end.

When it comes to health care in the United States low-income and minority people are underserved and uninsured, with this in mind the health care reform legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama on March 23…

Are the services that you provide covered by the Affordable Health Care Act?

The Affordable Care Act will boost the economy.

I find it difficult to understand what people are talking about when they talk about the increase in need for health care.

I believe they are still going to the community health centers because they get good care and they can afford it.

I believe that healthcare should be a right and not a privilege afforded to just a few.

This will be the 31st time that House Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it will be the 31st time it will not be repealed.

Why are there no physicians on the panel from the only State in the union with mandated care?

Let me also ask you, you indicate in your written testimony that we've got to do something quick before irreversible harm is done to our health care delivery system.

In fact, polls show that Massachusetts' doctors in large numbers support the healthcare law.

I've been in this business much too long to have not understood that insurance does not necessarily mean access to care.

I am absolutely and firmly convinced that because of the Affordable Health Care Act millions of Americans will live better, longer, healthier, and higher quality lives.

U2 has a song, ``Some Days Are Better Than Others.'' The lyrics go something like this: Some days are dry. Some days are leaky. Some days come clean. Other days are sneaky. Some days take less, but most days take more. Some slip through…

there seems to be some Members of this body who think that somehow you can get rain without thunder and lightning.

The longer I listen to this debate, the more confusing it becomes. {time} 1900 I remember a wise man telling me once, You can't get blood out of a turnip, but you can slice it, you can dice it, whip it, and do everything, but it still ends…

I want to thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding. I rise in opposition to the rule and to the underlying bill, H.R. 5854, the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act, as related to project labor agreements. This bill would…

I just simply have to agree with Mr. Cummings that it seems as though President Obama gets no credit for the massive increases in oil and gas production during his administration and President Bush gets no blame for the oil and gas…