For a number of years now, Senator Harkin and I have been working very hard trying to get something passed called Community Choice, which would allow these individuals to live at home and still get the nursing care or the medical care they…

I have always said that Medicaid and Medicare were the best things that happened to health care.

Let me, first of all, thank you, my classmate, Donna Christensen. We got here about the same time, and it seems as though the longer we're here, the more alike we think. So I want to thank you for your leadership. I also want to commend…

I am always reminded of something Frederick Douglass said when we talk about what we need and what we want.

I think all of us can reflect on September 11, 2001.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as she might consume to the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Ms. Hanabusa), the author of this measure.

I want to thank the gentlelady for her introduction of this measure. I urge its passage. I yield back the balance of our time.

It is my pleasure now to yield such time as she may consume to the author of this measure, the delegate from Guam (Ms. Bordallo).

I want to thank the gentleman from California for his introduction of this very thoughtful measure. I can't help but recall the fact that I was given a Tuskegee Airmen jacket by the DODO Club, the DODO Chapter in Chicago. I wear it…

I thank the gentleman for introducing this thoughtful measure and yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the author of this legislation, the gentleman from the Garden State of New Jersey, Representative Steve Rothman.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I join my colleague from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in support and consideration of H.R. 2213, which would rename the United States Postal Service facility…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform minority, I am pleased to present for consideration H.R. 2244, which would rename the United States Postal Service…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I am pleased to join my colleagues in support of H.R. 2548, which designates the facility of the United States…

I commend the gentleman from Massachusetts on this very thoughtful measure, I urge its passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he might consume to the author of this measure, Mr. Keating of Massachusetts.

I commend the gentlelady for her introduction of this very thoughtful measure, I urge its passage, and yield back the balance of my time.

It is my pleasure to yield such time as he may consume to the author of this measure, Representative Adam Schiff from California.

There are those who reminded him of people who might have wanted the rain, but without the thunder and the lightning.

I happen to be a practicing Christian, and I notice at my church that everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I am all for everybody having health care. I totally agree with you on that. I think we disagree fundamentally on how you get there.

But if I am dead because I couldn't get health care, can I come to your business?

If you create an opportunity for more than 30 million people in this country to have health insurance... the only business that I could see that gets hurt by this is the undertaker.

The Tax Code is 10 times bigger than the bible with no good news.

I want to thank the gentleman from Louisiana for yielding. I rise in support of the Richmond amendment and in opposition to H.R. 2584, the Interior and Environment appropriations, and I do so because we cannot afford to make such drastic…