The President said today that it is time for the House to lay out our ideas to give the middle class a better shot. He said it is time to move past stale debates. Madam Speaker, the only reason these debates are stale is because the House…

Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for organizing this because we come to Washington to make tough decisions. That's what the country expects of us. Mr. Speaker, I will offer the fact that one…

Thank you very much for yielding. And the gentleman has hit the nail on the head on this one. We want to encourage young folks to do the right thing and buy insurance. And in Maryland, our insurance was affordable for the young because we…

Thank you very much. I want to thank my colleague from Tennessee. I've practiced for 28 years before coming to the body here 2 years ago. Part of the reason is because of what the gentleman from Georgia mentions, the train wreck, to use…

This week the House is going to take action on a bill that's going to give the American workers in the private sector the exact same rights that Federal Government workers have, and that is that if you're going to choose to work extra, you…

Thank you very much. I would like to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for bringing this subject to the attention of the American people because this is a subject that's not going away. What we're talking about today, of course, is a…

The American people saw today that their House of Representatives is serious in dealing with our crushing debt and deficit. We took some big steps toward that today. Just minutes ago, we passed a budget that balances within 10 years and…

Thank you very much, and I appreciate you yielding some time to me on this important occasion. As the doctor from Texas has said, Mr. Speaker, we are going to ``celebrate''--and I put that in quotes--the third anniversary of the passage of…

In January, the President asked hardworking taxpayers to contribute 2 percent more of their hard-earned paychecks to the Federal Government in the form of a payroll tax increase. They had to cut their household budgets by 2 percent. The…

But I would urge you to keep it to science and leave the politics aside.

I find it incredible that NIH funding is funding this because... it has nothing to do with Chestertown and everything to do with a partisan political agenda.

I think the FDA is not clear on Ella.

This was the use of Federal dollars on a clearly partisan political agenda.

Because although we hear that there have been no pay increases, and your testimony is there actually have been average pay increases.

So given that, and the fact that we are unclear whether spending control versus taxes, then the discussion really revolves around what size of government spending relation to GDP you are going to have.

In your testimony, and they are just technical questions, you refer to budget reductions of the past 2 years.

I like your projections.

If they come ask me what is the effect of sequester on me you can't answer because actually you are downstream from other agencies.

The last thing of particular interest to me because I am a physician is that this change in the SGR scoring that occurred, this phenomenal change between November and February.

I think they are involved in looking at other things beyond printing.

Do you think that is good planning over at the Department of Defense?

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for yielding. The gentleman is absolutely correct. We made a promise to our seniors. To the people who've worked all their lives, we made a promise that we're going to take care of you, but we have to…

I want to thank the gentleman from Tennessee and the gentleman from Georgia. Following up on what the gentleman from Georgia said, Mr. Speaker, the President stood there and told America that health care costs have gone down. Now, I don't…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for yielding. To follow up on his point, Mr. Speaker, I don't know if Americans realize, the gentleman is absolutely right. If you have a case litigated, a birth injury claim, and it goes to a jury and…

I couldn't agree more.