Madam Speaker, this is a most significant day. Health insurance reform has been coming for a long time, and we are finally here. With passage of this bill, American families are going to take back control of their health care. This bill…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to express my disappointment and dismay with AIG's decision to pay $100 million in bonuses to executives. These are not just any employees but those from the financial products division, the same group that…

NRF strongly supports H.R. 2452, bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Richard Neal and Pat Tiberi.

I think we all are in agreement here today that criminal tax evasion should be pursued aggressively and punished.

I sincerely hope our efforts today will remain focused on the issues of compliance.

Steps that undermine our international standing could threaten key information exchanges and invite unintended consequences that could do significant harm to our economy's capital markets.

This will be our first hearing to address the troublesome issue of international tax avoidance.

Thank you Chairman Neal. Thank you for your leadership.

I thought it was really on target, and like many as I come across data in the last few weeks, I was surprised to hear that there were 50,000 previously undisclosed bank accounts that UBS held by U.S. taxpayers.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

The Massachusetts' model has drawn a considerable amount of attention everywhere. The end result is 97 percent, I think, of the citizens of Massachusetts are now covered under the Pioneering plan.