Janice Schakowsky

I just wanted to make the point that this is not a freebie for the Federal Government when we say that we do it through tax breaks that we would give to corporations.

But I want to just make the very clear point that you say without any new federal dollars. Not true.

I appreciate all of the commercialization, especially that and the problems that you face because companies seem, you are saying would want these tax breaks.

I hope all my colleagues will join in working to increase National Nanotechnology Initiative funding moving forward.

I will close by just thanking the gentleman--all of the gentlemen--and ladies who have participated in making this important legislation come to fruition. I do hope we are able to move it very quickly and, hopefully, unanimously here, move…

It is now my pleasure to yield for such time as he may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr), who is from a beautiful area of the country.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

If this were a good faith effort to really find and fix some of the problems that are in the Affordable Care Act, I would be more than happy to fully participate.

Ten million people have gained coverage this year because of the ACA.

The number I have heard, and you can confirm it, is about $150 billion would be saved by that one change.

The Valukas report identifies Mr. Ray DeGiorgio, who you said, Ms. Barra, has no credibility, that the GM design release engineer, that was his title, as being almost solely responsible for key decisions to approve the deadly ignition…

The families of the victims of GM's defective vehicles deserved better. GM failed you. We are looking at those pictures in the back of the room and they need more than an apology.

I don't want to minimize Mr. DeGiorgio's role or excuse his actions in any way, but I do think these documents going to the fact that the problem at GM is deeper than just one rogue engineer.

Knowledge of the problem is important.

We should be the undisputed leader in clean energy technologies and the jobs they support.

We are at a critical moment in history.

The Democratic committee staff released a memorandum on the amazing number of distortions and false claims that Republicans have made about the Affordable Care Act.

At best, patent trolls are misleading. At worst, they are extortionists. This is fundamentally a fairness issue.

I want to develop a solution to this growing issue, and look forward to doing so in a bipartisan manner.

But let me just really thank this panel, the previous panel as well, but the intensity now of the scientific research and then its application to the playing field, and actually so many other fields, I really want to thank you for telling…

But professional baseball and professional basketball do provide lifetime health insurance for former players.

Athletes are continually becoming bigger and faster and stronger, and despite some efforts to make sports safer, much work remains.

Three hundred thousand sports-related traumatic brain injuries occur annually in the United States.

This is a very important hearing on improving sports safety.

So a change in the culture means not only managing head injuries when they occur, but also encouraging safer play to reduce the risk of head injuries.