Thank you very much. I really appreciate my colleague from Georgia's comments, Dr. Gingrey. Excellent. The minority leader, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, once promised that the President's Affordable Care Act would create as many as 4 million…

Thank you, Dr. Harris, for being here tonight. We certainly appreciate your comments. Let me add, at a town hall in New Hampshire in August of 2009, President Obama stated: If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care…

Tonight, my colleagues and I have come to the floor, both as Members of Congress and physicians, to discuss the urgent need to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Like many of my fellow Members here this…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this hearing. This bill is simply a straightforward technical correction to a land patent granted to the Great Lakes Shipwrecks Historical Society, which is located in my district.

Mr. Chairman, I thank you again for holding this hearing and ask for your support in reporting this bill favorably to the floor.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, it's my pleasure to be here this evening to join my colleagues to talk about Medicare. As you may know, before coming to Congress, I served as a general surgeon in my district for the last 30 years, and many of my…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I have spent 28 years as a physician practicing rural medicine, even serving on the board of my local hospital. I am well aware of the great financial difficulties most rural…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate my fellow freshman and colleague from Michigan for his leadership on this issue. Mr. Chairman, this is a simple amendment that addresses a growing problem with our friends at the EPA--their…

There has been a lot of talk about the partisanship and venom in Washington this year. And while we will certainly see fierce debates in the future, I believe Members of this body can still come together and find common ground. On the…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I came to the floor to speak in favor of this bill because frankly, I find it hard to believe what I'm hearing from those arguing against it. Does anyone honestly believe that passing this…

Last week, instead of making campaign bus stops and touting more stimulus spending, President Obama may have been better served coming to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, for a conference on jobs in the timber industry. At the conference…

Unfortunately, farmers are not the only constituents with grey wolf problems.

I am concerned that we are disrupting enormous amounts of economic productivity for species we may know too little about.

I routinely hold town hall meetings throughout my district, and a few months ago I was approached by one of my constituents...

I believe the standard of science here may not be good enough.

I want every tribe to do well and make a profit, and gaming allows tribes to do that.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of this rule and final passage of the bill. In a time when government is borrowing over 40 cents for every dollar it spends, this bill makes needed cuts and puts…

Over the past couple weeks, we've seen an increase in the false attacks on this House's plan to save Medicare for future generations and prevent America from falling into an abyss of debt and deficits. These falsehoods represent a new low…

This morning, a gallon of gasoline in my hometown of Iron River, Michigan, was $4.29. Unfortunately, most people are plagued with the fact of knowing that prices are going to go up even further in the next few weeks. I believe that we in…

On rollcall No. 273, I was at a doctors appointment across town. Had I been present, I would have voted, ``no.''

This day marks an historic moment for our country. The rise in Federal spending that has defined the last 3 years has ended. The bill that we will pass in the House today contains the largest cuts in our budget since the end of World War…

I don't understand why, if it makes a profit, that we are just not doing it.

People in my district want to be able to enjoy the land. They want access for recreation.

It's time to expedite permits, open up land and start drilling.

Before coming to this House, I have actually been taking care of patients for the last 30 years, and as a surgeon, I work with patients to provide care and earn their trust. The doctor-patient relationship is the very foundation of the…