I hope today that DOE can provide its response to Vehicle Technologies Program related management concerns.

I think that we should not just act as partisans in our oversight. We should act as the eyes and ears of the American people.

without government subsidies, without government mandates, these electric vehicles would not--would fail in the marketplace

I do support the important role of Congressional oversight, that is, it is an important check in our system of checks and balances on the Executive Branch of government.

I would like to state at the outset that I am strongly supportive of advanced vehicle technologies if the government role is carefully limited.

The President recently identified outsourcing and foreign investments as a major issue we should be considering.

The gentleman is absolutely right. What we have done is we have once again made promises to people we know we can't keep. We know because that graph--and I'll yield to the gentleman to answer the question--that's from the Congressional…

I thank my colleague, the obstetrician from Georgia, who points out that on the graph, as the gentleman from Louisiana showed before, Medicaid expenditures now exceed K-12 education. And as the other chart we've seen shows, we're over at…

If the gentleman would just yield for a very brief question. Do you think that's the kind of health care that the women of America deserve?

I thank the gentleman from Texas. Again, we have on the floor with us now two obstetricians and an obstetric anesthesiologist. If women are ready for childbirth, we're ready on the floor of the House tonight. The gentleman makes a great…

If the gentleman from Louisiana will just leave that one up so the American public that is watching just understands because a picture says a thousand words. That picture is the growth of Medicaid for the next generation. My son is 12 now…

The gentleman is correct. Every single program that we have, whether it's the elderly with health care, the elderly with Social Security, whether it's food stamps, whether it's unemployment insurance, whether it's to do the things this…

I thank the gentleman. I would love to bring the gentleman from Texas into the discussion, because women actually are specifically affected by the shortfalls in Medicaid because the reimbursement rates for women's health care is frequently…

Thank you very much to the gentlelady from Wyoming for bringing up that point about what Medicaid does to State governments and about what the potential is to State governments and all the other programs that they have to fund. I will tell…

So what we have here is we have a third party looking at what's going on and saying the emperor has no clothes; that, in fact, if we continue the current policy with Medicaid--which, as the gentleman well knows, roughly doubles the number…

You may or may not be aware of the study done early last year that showed that, actually, whether patients have private insurance or no insurance or Medicare or Medicaid, when you compare the outcomes, Medicaid patients have the worst…

So what you're saying is that you had patients under TennCare who had insurance cards. You just couldn't find anyone to take care of them. Mr. DesJARLAIS. Right, which is exactly what we're going to see under the President's plan. You're…

I thank my colleagues for their participation, and I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I will yield to the gentlelady from Wyoming.

What do you have to hide? Why wouldn't you want to show the American people what you use in your deliberations?

I think that is as responsive as I would expect from the most transparent Administration.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for yielding the time. Madam Speaker, my, my, my. Former Speaker Pelosi was so right when she said Congress had to pass this bill so Americans could just find out what's in it. {time} 1400 Well, Americans…

If we are going to bring down this $1.5 trillion worth of deficit spending that we have every year, we have got to find ways of making those type of savings as represented by SpaceX.

The launch of the NPP satellite last October was certainly an achievement, and NOAA and NASA are to be applauded for the successful launch.

But the satellite was five years late, and some of the instruments are not working as well as they should be.