Charles Boustany: “They account for more than half of America's private gross domestic product.”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 13, strike ``; and'' and insert a semicolon. Page 3, line 15, strike the period at the end and…

The trend lines in all these areas are very disturbing, in my mind, as a physician who has been around health care for quite a long time.

I believe it is of vital importance to seek solutions to the problem of delayed payments for veterans' medical 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).