Repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean 17 million children with pre-existing conditions who will be denied coverage by insurance company.

Every American who can afford to buy health insurance must buy insurance, and if you can't afford it, the Affordable Care Act will pay, will help you pay for it.

I believe that this Congress and the President of the United States, President Barack Obama, took a historic step to expand health coverage by passing the Affordable Care Act.

The time to act is now.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, you and Chairman Johnson, for holding this hearing.

the most important step that we are not taking is thinking about how to deal with the issues of critical infrastructure vulnerability.

having a requirement for people to better authenticate themselves when they log into critical infrastructure networks would be a good step.

If the answer is no, the Congress will have failed.

I think the changes in that bill are essential. You know, they update old legislation from the 1980s, from dial phones and copper wires, to let Government and companies work together better.

If I have any advice, it might be to add those 11 pages back in.

getting people to have a better understanding of what is connected to the internet, how it connects, and who can use it, these are all things we can do.

I appreciate all the work the committee has done, both the full committee and the subcommittees.

The greatest threat to cybersecurity in America, however, is complacency.

I think a lot of people were surprised when we saw the amendment. The easiest way to describe it is the original bill was, I believe, 45 pages and the amended bill was 34 pages.

I think this is a case where we can put the two bills side by side and see one--and I applaud the authors of it--one was very strong. The other is less strong.

But the ultimate test will be: Do you give the Government more authority to mandate security, to protect critical infrastructure facilities?

If we don't do that this year, an attack is inevitable.

This was tried in the Clinton administration. It did not work then, it does not work now.

This is one of those issues where we just need to put partisan politics aside and get it done.

the most serious problem facing taxpayers is that the IRS is not adequately funded to serve taxpayers and to collect taxes.

I hope and pray that any bill that this committee puts on the floor will send an unmistakable message that the United States House of Representatives, the body of the people, speaks in a clear voice for safety.

I have serious concerns about the effect of the recent budget cuts on taxpayers, tax collection, and Agency operations.

It is so wrong to push for them to be safe? It is the right thing to do. It is the necessary thing to do.

He felt strongly that much of it could have been prevented if only they had been wearing seatbelts.

The American people are demanding that we act.