Peter Roskam: “This is a scandal. This is an embarrassment.”

All of us, everybody we know, has a lot of things that they are dealing with on a daily basis. There are challenges, and there are issues and little minicrises, until somebody gets a phone call that says that their child is in the…

There is a quotation that is familiar that is brought to my attention this afternoon as we are debating this, and it has echoes for today. It is by Martin Niemoller, who was a Lutheran pastor in Germany; and this is what he said: ``First…

If we stand still or worse take the path of isolationism we will abandon our greatest freedom.

I urge us to reject this motion to recommit. The hospital insurance trust fund isn't going to be insolvent purely because we are freeing Americans from the individual mandate. This crisis has been going on for decades. Mr. Speaker, I urge…