Charles Boustany: “The Administration in this area was usurping the authority of Congress to write law and was, in effect, writing law.”

We are seeing the costs going up. And of course what the President is proposing is higher taxpayer liability.

Less choice, less information, less control. This is disastrous for health care.

This is an absolutely essential amendment because we need more transparency about methods and how these assumptions are built into what they are proposing. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk).

I have no other Members wishing to speak on the bill, and I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.