Madam Chair, I guess my response is, with all due respect, prove me wrong. If there is no health care risk, let the GAO independent analysis prove us wrong. But there's a lot at stake here, and I would defy anyone to say that greenhouse…

Madam Chair, my amendment would require that the GAO report to Congress the results of a study of health care costs in the U.S. as affected by the elimination of EPA regulation under this act. Further, the report would also detail health…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: SEC. 5. GAO REPORT. Not later than one year after the date of…

Madam Speaker, we spend a lot of time these days talking about costs--costs of regulation, costs of repeal, costs of implementation. Conveniently missing from this discussion are the human costs: lives lost, those altered by heart attacks…

Madam Speaker, I rise today because in a few short days this body will consider an extreme and devastating anti-choice bill. H.R. 3 attempted to redefine rape, aims to ban private insurance coverage of reproductive health care, and imposes…

Our country is on an unsustainable fiscal path.

For a country with the proud history and vast resources of the United States, this is unacceptable--it is unacceptable because government's mission matters.

Step two must be fixing our broken budget process.

The CBO projects that by 2030, the federal government will be spending 30 percent of GDP but collecting only 20 percent in tax revenue.

By 2050, the government will be collecting that same 20 percent, but spending 45 percent--our deficits will only get worse from there.

Step one in righting our course is agreeing on what defines fiscal sustainability.