Do you think the Affordable Care Act can work?

the ultimate fate of the ACA was in question really until this election was over.

Mr. Sarbanes mentioned the issue of cost shifting and why it was so important to get the Affordable Care Act done

Congressman Ryan's budget plan includes the revenue from that tax in his proposal.

So fixing SGR is really getting rid of SGR.

So just anticipating the kind of legislation that we would need to pass here, it could be pretty simple, right?

I want to thank the soon-to-be ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Engel, for yielding this time, and I want to thank him for his eloquent opposition to H.R. 6649. This is not a noncontroversial bill. I know it's…

Critical initiatives that help the Chesapeake Bay will be among the hardest hit by sequestration. These programs, including the Small Watersheds Program, the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, and the Section 319 Program, provide much…

I just want to emphasize that from the beginning of this process, obviously a State looking at it without any peers having undertaken the process, without CMS and others having, you know, fully gotten into it yet, you could look at it and…

Thank you for your tremendous work on this. It is incredibly exciting actually what you are doing...

Congratulations on the work in Maryland. I know you and Governor O'Malley and others that are a part of this effort...

I pledge that we will get to the bottom of this so we can ensure that this outbreak, things like this never ever occur again.

The FDA still has not provided the key timeline information requested by the committee more than a month ago.

I agree with him, and that is why I think he probably should consider being the commission chairman.

The argument that that is the case is not supported by the facts.

So claims that under President Obama oil production on Federal lands is down is false.

There is a lot of rhetoric on this topic. I sat through many, many meets of the Natural Resources Committee.

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair.

the task, the charge, the responsibility of the Commission to kind of keep its eyes open as these imports are coming in

We've heard the discussion of how Turkey has continually denied the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923 during which 1.5 million Armenians perished and since 1993 has maintained a destabilizing blockade of Armenia. Now some would say these…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in opposition to H.R. 2362 because I don't believe that the preferential consideration which it gives to the interest of one country, Turkey, can be justified. There is no dispute over what many…

Mr. Scalise's claims are incorrect.

I appreciate it, Mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows: community development loan guarantees program account For the cost of guaranteed loans, $6,000,000, to…

I thank the chairman. As the gentlemen are aware, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, NHTSA, has been working on a public-private research program known as the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or DADSS…

adaptation ought to be looking ahead, using the models figuring out what the most likely scenarios are in terms of effects of climate change