I bring this amendment forward on the REINS Act to simply prohibit the Obama administration from imposing a carbon tax on the United States. If they wanted to impose that kind of tax, they could not do it through regulation. Of course…

If I could go back to that National Association of Manufacturers study on the impact of a carbon tax, the gentleman from Tennessee might be interested in knowing that in Tennessee alone, in the first year of a carbon tax, household…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding and for bringing this bill forward. Mr. Chairman, I am a strong supporter of the REINS Act. If you look at why we are bringing this bill forward, it is because of the onslaught of radical…

every single day I hear from employers back in my district that have nothing but problems and questions that are unanswered about the President's healthcare law.

Do you really think that is isolated? I hear it every day and it is across the board, large employers, small employers, medium-size employers that are all saying the same thing.

Medicaid is probably the most broken part of health care.

The delay of the employer mandate could greatly contribute to the integrity of the employer verification in the future.

the ACA, the Affordable Care Act, 'will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour workweek that is the backbone of the American middle class.'

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 157, after line 2, add the following new section: Sec. 10002. None of the funds made available by this…

I will close, Mr. Chairman. The gentleman makes an important point when he says that the Department of Defense is America's largest user of energy. Then I think it is even more important that they watch every penny. You know, I've got…

The amendment I bring forward is a very basic, straightforward, commonsense amendment that deals with the funding priorities within the Department of Defense. We know we are living in a post-sequester world. We have many hearings here on…

I mean, that is money that somebody let goes, and goes to a restaurant, they are going to have to be paying more money, in essence, $30,000 per store more that is going to cost consumers, every store, and these are real prices that are…