I assure him right now, if he is ever ill, we will make sure that he has a space in that Mecca of medical care.

I want to thank you, first of all, for the productive meeting that you and the staff had with Caritas Christi.

The law that is under assault here this morning has high customer satisfaction across the State.

I would encourage all the members of this committee, and others, to visit an emergency room on a Friday or Saturday night.

I would ask you, Dr. Sullivan, when we talk about competitiveness, which all of us are for, shouldn't we be concerned about promoting a level playing field so that our smaller American corporations... aren't at a disadvantage against their…

To say, as the representative of the Business Roundtable has done here, that 'revenue neutrality should be off the table' may be consistent with the misguided holiday tax deal that added another almost $1 trillion to the national debt.

It sounds a lot to me like tax cuts pay for themselves.

During the course of the campaign, we heard that this was going to be repeal and replace. What we have in front of us is simply repeal, because there has never been a credible alternative offered for replace. This legislation is modeled…

I am standing in opposition to this proposal. When we debated the middle income tax cut a few weeks ago, I spoke in favor of a tax system that we might design for the future, a progressive system with substantial tax relief for working…

I thank the chairman. Madam Speaker, this legislation has already passed the House. It really was a bipartisan achievement this year, and much of the good work that went into this legislation has been years in coming. More than 100 years…

I want to disagree sharply with the point that our colleague, Mr. Brady, just made; America needs to have this conversation. We need to have a conversation as to how we got ourselves into the mess that we find ourselves in today, and part…

Mr. Speaker, this legislation is about supporting American manufacturing jobs, plain and simple. The Peterson Institute suggests that this would increase American exports by $100 to $150 billion a year. The Ways and Means Committee held…