If we let them get away with this, heaven knows what will happen the next time.

Absolutely not. Wolf, we have a situation where the Republican Party has allowed a small minority, the Tea Party Republicans, to basically hijack not only in whole hostage, not only the Republican Party, but the Congress and the country.

My good friend talked about safety and safety systems. It's my understanding that the vessel has fire suppression systems installed in the nonpublic spaces. They have not installed fire suppression systems in the public spaces, that's like…

I believe I speak for the entire committee when I say that our commitment to this goal is bipartisan and unwavering.

We cannot let that happen under our watch. This is our watch.

This is the committee on Oversight and Government Reform, reform is so, so vital, particularly at this moment.

I would ask that Ms. Speier be given an extra minute and a half so that she can clear up some of what you just said which we on this side of the aisle consider to be misleading.

Everyone knows what this hearing is really about: trying to end Obamacare.

This is the law. Hello, this is the law. It has been passed.

There is a systematic effort by some Republican officials to obstruct implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

As I conclude, the truth is that nobody really believes today's hearing was intended to help make the Affordable Care Act work better.

This week House Republicans are threatening to shut down, shut down the entire Government unless the Affordable Act is completely de-funded.

What happens to the people in your States who are sick and cannot get care?

But that does not mean we scrap it and throw it out, because people will die.

This is intimidation and another effort to sabotage.

Republicans want to eliminate health coverage for tens of millions of Americans, return the keys to the insurance companies, and go back to the days of discrimination against people like Ms. Laury with preexisting conditions.

The President gave them that leeway. A lot of the problem that we have in the law is because of things that happened when we were trying to pass it.

I tell the story about when we voted for the Affordable Care Act I got to the Floor of the House four hours early. I sat on the front row and I had only one prayer. I said, God, don't let me die before I vote for it. And the reason why I…

I must tell you, it is just shocking, because remember the last hearing that we had, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Cummings, the last hearing we had, we had to have it because these gentlemen refused to even talk to the Inspector General.

I want to thank you for convening what common sense would suggest will be the capstone on this committee's five-hearing inquiry into GM's decision making on Delphi pensions.

In fact, this report is about the hourly, not the salaried, and you are going to see that when we have this discussion.

I want to thank the ranking member for his courtesy.

But what we had with TARP was this perversion of the process where each and every person sitting around the table suddenly became the Treasury Department.

Now, there is partisan politics that shouldn't be happening here in this hearing.

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