Peter Roskam

Mr. Blumenauer and I have been working on a bill that fits right into this theme.

I would give Berea credit in a large degree for my opportunity to sit here today.

We want to learn more. There is an incredible opportunity I sense for us to do a lot of good all the way around.

I think everybody agrees that education is the key. And as Mr. Lewis mentioned, education is a great equalizer.

That makes perfect sense to me right now.

Do you have a sense, you know, being active with the Hospital Association and so forth, are there some regulatory tradeoffs that CMS or Congress could offer that are reasonable?

So folks who were in talking to me, what were they referring to that is going to happen next month?

I just have two quick questions.

Mr. McDermott suggested that this is a hearing today about holding the insurance companies harmless.

A quick word about today, a quick look back, and then a question.

Similar theme, this is a limitation amendment that would prohibit the administration from being involved in expediting the financing for the Boeing sale to Iran. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman).

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 (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 2 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New York has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Do you understand, sort of, the nature of the trick bag that you are putting the Congress and the American people in because you have not disclosed that information?

I want to get answers; you want to get answers; everybody wants to get answers.

This is not about poor people; this is about making sure an insurance carrier gets a subsidy.

And now, on an issue that is absolutely pivotal, that is a fulcrum between the executive and the legislative branch, you say in this memo 'I don't remember'? Is that your testimony today?

Just for the point of clarification, the Administration stipulated in the lawsuit that has been frequently cited here that notwithstanding the cost-sharing reduction program, it is the insurance carriers that are on the hook.

You are being passive-aggressive. You are being an obstructionist agency. And it is outrageous.

Your commitment is waning and underperforming. Good grief.

They are coming up with new legal standards here that don't even exist in the law.

The Administration, in the lawsuit, stipulated that the insurance companies are going to do this regardless.

Let me describe, I think, what the point of the hearing is.

The lengths we have had to go, in this investigation, clearly underscore the unprecedented level of obstruction by this Administration.

Defying the Constitution: The Administration's Unlawful Funding of the Cost Sharing Reduction Program.