Nov 21, 2003
Mr. Speaker, again let me read the language of the bill that the gentleman just referred to, that terrible piece of language. It says in effect that in administering the prescription drug benefit program established under this, the…
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Nov 21, 2003
I got a letter from the Congressional Budget Office indicating that they prepared a preliminary estimate of the impact of the Democratic amendment to H.R. 1, the Democratic plan; and the estimate of CBO of their plan is $1 trillion. So a…
Nov 21, 2003
CBO's estimates now indicate that this bill makes oncologists perfectly whole in this first year of the changeover. In fact, for the first 2 years, it is a neutral completely, and oncologists will be getting something like 2 2 o 3 times…
Nov 21, 2003
That is why we built an ASP, Average Sales Price, plus a percentage to give the smaller oncology units a chance to buy, in case the larger units buy at a lower price, they could at least get coverage on top of the Average Sales Price to…
Nov 18, 2003
ETBE is included within the definition of a renewable fuel. The conference report attempts to provide maximum flexibility to the refining marketplace to achieve the goals of both the new renewable fuels requirement and, therefore, ETBE is…
Nov 18, 2003
Our purpose in requiring GSA to spread this incremental cost across the entire Federal fleet is, in fact, to remove the cost disincentive for some Federal agencies, to improve EPACT compliance, and to minimize the overall cost to the…
Nov 18, 2003
The conferees intend that section 231 of the conference agreement shall go into effect immediately upon enactment and be available to license applicants in all ongoing and future hydroelectric licensing proceedings under the Federal Power…
Sep 25, 2003
In fact, we have been asked so many times, is this a free-speech issue. The United States Constitution gives you the right to speak; it does not give you the right to be heard. None of us have an obligation to listen if we do not want to…
Sep 25, 2003
Mr. Speaker, let me again emphasize this is extraordinary. The court decision came out yesterday. The leadership of this House authorized this bill to the floor today. We are about to pass this bill, I believe the Senate is about to do the…
Jul 16, 2003
The authority allows the Secretary to take control of these facilities only during, and as necessary to respond to, public health emergencies affecting national security. Under the Bioterrorism Response Act passed last year, a public…
Jul 16, 2003
The Secretary should perform these reviews as expeditiously as possible once the R&D or procurement has started so as to prevent any exports of countermeasures or countermeasure R&D that could harm our U.S. national security.
Jul 16, 2003
The gentleman is correct. Like you, I too want to ensure that unapproved products are available in times of emergency. And while we allow the FDA to make products available during such time of emergency, absent such emergency, current law…
Jun 26, 2003
Mr. Speaker, the Mediscam bill that the gentleman just described is patterned after H.R. 1495, authored by the gentleman from California (Mr. Stark), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman)…
Apr 11, 2003
It has come to our attention that the gentleman has very serious concerns that residents of the State of Virginia may not benefit from certain provisions in the electricity title of H.R. 6, and it is for that reason we have this colloquy…
Apr 11, 2003
It is not my intention to recommend the reinsertion of this language, no. I will say again, though, it is my intention to continue this debate with you on every 5-year plan, leasing plan, every discussion we have at Interior about how and…
Apr 10, 2003
My concern is that without this amendment, the reason why I think we ought to adopt it, is that there are laws on the books that provide for where royalty and bonus income goes, and without a provision that gives the appropriators a chance…
Mar 13, 2003
Subparagraph 11(c)(1) says: ``Any State law, whether effective before, on, or after the dates of the enactment of this Act that specifies a particular monetary amount of compensatory or punitive damages, or the total amount of damages…
Jun 27, 2002
I am pleased to let my dear friend, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek), know that the poor seniors in her State, over 1 million of them, will get free insurance drug coverage under this bill. That is 42 percent of her seniors and the…
Jun 27, 2002
How dare any of the Members suggest they love their mothers and fathers more than we love our mothers and fathers. How dare they suggest that we dislike our grandparents and would feed them bitter pills, and get them. How dare they make…
Jun 18, 2002
The major components of what we are suggesting is that it is time to quit talking and to put in place a real and sustainable entitlement program within Medicare that will provide access to drugs at more affordable cost to the seniors of…
Jun 5, 2002
That Federal funding for diabetes research should be increased annually as recommended by the Diabetes Research Working Group so that a cure for juvenile diabetes can be found.
Jun 4, 2002
As the gentleman knows, at this time, more than 1 million Americans have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly. It makes them insulin-dependent for life, and it carries a constant threat of…
May 22, 2002
9-11 taught us a lesson, in effect. It taught us that we have to be willing to think like evil people. And that is not our custom. We think like good people in America. We do not think like evil people, designing ways and means to kill and…
Feb 13, 2002
If ever there was an amendment that provided preferential speech in America it is the Torricelli amendment, and we ought to strike it. This amendment says that somehow Federal candidates for office in America, Federal politicians are…
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