John Fleming

Two years ago, President Obama told a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, that current deficit spending was unsustainable, and that we are mortgaging our children's future with more and more debt. I agree with the President.

Isn't this an example of big government exploiting the private sector once again?

My concern is, and we have seen this happen before, is, other folks come in from the outside; they set up their entrepreneurial enterprises.

But in that same period of time, think about the number of babies who have been killed through abortion, through a sterile area where a doctor goes in and we have the usual instruments and so forth and the fetus sucked out of the womb and…

The closure of the weapon storage area at Barksdale was a significant mistake with a negative operational impact.

Clearly, this will have an effect on the jobs and economic livelihood on coastal and fishery-dependent communities and could have a devastating economic impact on a range of ocean users. So, for that reason, I stand in support and urge my…

I cannot find one single permit for deepwater drilling that has been issued since the lifting of the moratorium, and we don't know when they ever will.

But it was a disaster to Louisiana, my home State, in two ways: One, to our ecology, no question about it; but maybe even worse and longer term in jobs.

The military is indeed a unique organization, and that such restrictions, such policies can indeed go forward. I would just like to say, in wrapping up, a couple of important statistics that I think should be mentioned, and that is that 60…

The problem is that the structure of ObamaCare that is so steeped in bureaucracy and so costly and so, I guess, handcuffing if you will of health care in general, health care decisions made by doctors, by the patients themselves, that is…

I am very disappointed. The lack of an ear to the people of this country by this Congress is unprecedented, and a good example is the Murphy amendment that we see today that repeals Don't Ask, Don't Tell when we have a scheduled report…

Right. This is his quote. He considers the British health system ``a global treasure.'' In fact, it's my understanding--I don't have it in my data right here--it's my understanding that he helped design it. And it's designed very simply…

Well, what it basically means is that there's going to be a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, perhaps not even doctors, who are going to be tasked with looking at research, hopefully there's going to be research or they are going to do…

Additional tax from the actuary who is saying it's going to be more taxes. Job cuts: 90 percent of medical device makers say that they will eliminate jobs. That's 9 out of 10 companies that make anything from tongue blades to pacemakers…

But it goes further than that. There's going to be $120 billion in taxes that were not anticipated. That's on top of the $600 billion that were already----

This bill is by no means really paid for, that there is smoke and mirrors about the financing, that it will definitely cost tax for the middle class, although the President said otherwise. The President said premiums would go down for…

I want to thank the gentleman for his leadership, and certainly he's been a mentor for me, and also a special kind of family practice heart that only we family physicians understand, not just for your patients, but for the work that you do…

I want to get back to that just for a moment. And here's why. We, the three physicians that are here, and our friend, Mr. King, we've all seen situations--health care problems, situations where people develop cancer, heart disease, what…

And if you would yield back for one moment. This will be the biggest increase in abortions since Roe v. Wade. And I yield back.

Reclaiming my time. And then one other deal that just slipped in on the House side is the North Dakota deal. There are carve- outs there. So the sweet deals have not stopped even though the Senate bill is complete. I understand that there…

Those are all great. I appreciate your adding some of the things I left out. This list is getting so long of all the special deals. And the way that the Democrats are attempting to bypass the Constitution is just really unbelievable, and…

As this debate has gone on and on and on and the news gets out, the acceptance of this has dropped. In fact, today it is at its lowest point that it's been. I think we are up to now 55 percent of Americans are against it and down in the…

The other thing is the idea that suddenly you can cover 30 million more Americans using the same resources. Nobody buys that. And finally, another way to say this is that there is going to be an increase of taxes on 25 percent more…

I think it bears noting that this bill defies common sense. We just talked about the fact that you take a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, which is already struggling, and no one has ever explained in this year-long debate how in…

That is absolutely right. Furthermore, just as way of an example, we actually had people from Canada and from the United Kingdom, both patients and doctors, who came to testify before us. And they told us really crazy things that we would…