I personally am very skeptical that we'll get to a deal with Iran based on all the reading and studying and briefings I've had.

It is something we would like to get rid of, repealing AMT, putting that to rest once small.

We are all over this issue, and we're going to--we're focused on making sure that whatever the final agreement looks like, has to have very strong protections in it.

This week the House has an opportunity to make historic reforms to Medicare that will provide certainty to doctors and patients across the country. I spent 30 years practicing as a heart surgeon, fighting to save lives on the operating…

I think that's important, and I'm glad to hear you say that crude exports are something we need to consider in addition to expediting LNG exports.

If we were to export, many have said that we would start to see equilibration.

This is one of the [inaudible] we have right now at the Federal level where you have Federal agencies that are really not very accountable to each and every one of us.

I've always talked about how important it is to preserve the doctor-patient relationship, make a doctor-patient relationship for every single American that's affordable and meets a high quality of care, including single mothers and those…

if public funds are used, all conflicts of interest need to be put on the table in a very transparent way

I warned our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the Democratic side of the aisle, that what they were proposing was going to run up costs, restrict options within the insurance arena by forcing consolidation, and it was going to…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 233, noes 159, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 39, as follows: [Roll…

I rise with a heavy heart to commemorate the loss of 11 outstanding servicemen, including four members of the Louisiana National Guard, as a result of a helicopter training accident off the coast of Florida. From the Louisiana National…

We owe it to the taxpayer and we owe it to those who are most in need.

I think there is a lot of room for bipartisan agreement here.

I want to thank the chairman for calling--holding this hearing.

We need better performance indicators, and performance indicators that will drive collections for the hardest-to-serve children.

I think both Chairman Boustany and Mr. Doggett emphasized the importance of creating an environment of innovation.

We have a moral imperative to look at the facts, and to really start to make, you know, heads or tails--to make sense out of these programs.

I cannot be more emphatic that it is not about simply that.

I want to mention that yesterday Representative Dave Reichert and I introduced the Home Visiting Extension Act of 2015.

We have a widening gap of inequality in this country, and we need policies to address it.

With poverty rates stuck at historically high levels and far too many unable to find work, we need to make sure we're doing all we can to help people get ahead.

It is my intent as Chairman of the Subcommittee to not leave anybody behind in this.

Even though this is technically the sixth year of the current 'recovery,' far too many Americans are struggling to get ahead in today's economy.

But before we try to address these problems, we need to make sure we fully understand them.