John Dingell

I think everybody in this room should agree that individuals have the right to decline to provide certain medical treatment if they conscientiously object to their religious beliefs.

Wouldn't you agree that broadening the religious exemption would limit or prevent access to critical preventive services that are intended to improve the health and well being of women?

Isn't it true that this definition of religious employer is set forth by HRSA and the interim rule is not wholly a new definition of a religious employer?

Isn't it also true that the broadening of the religious exemption would limit access to contraceptives to nearly 1 million people and their dependents who work at religious hospitals and nearly 2 million students and workers at…

What is it my Republican colleagues want to do to see to it that we get ourselves a program which addresses problems like preexisting conditions and all of the other things that they have been introducing legislation to repeal...

The program was created to help address the needs of ailing Americans, both young and old, because alternatives can be impossibly costly to American families.

All we hear from my Republican colleagues is no, no, no, no. They sound like...

I heard my Republican colleagues in this committee, on the floor, and in speeches in and outside the Congress, tell everybody what an evil thing the health insurance bill, Affordable Care Act, is. And I, quite frankly, don't agree.

Do you agree that the CLASS Act was intended to help fill a need in affordable options for long-term care for working Americans? Yes or no.

But most people don't through their employer. And that is what the CLASS Act was about.

It is a privilege to be here. And I would like to thank my colleagues here.

It has been a great success. And it is widely supported by the citizens.

These refuges are treasures, to be enjoyed by millions of people every year who want to hunt, fish, or just enjoy the outdoors.

H.R. 3009 would take away the ability to do what President Roosevelt had the foresight to do.

The Refuge System is a tremendous value. Your State of Louisiana gets about 7,381 jobs out of the system.

It brings in $4 for every dollar we appropriate for it.

It is a very important service, and it is a very important treasure that the Refuge System guards.

What we're trying to do is to get back control of the battery industry because our people in the auto industry... have come to the conclusion that if the United States doesn't control this kind of technology, that it is going to see the…

It's always been my understanding that these records should be as clean as possible.

We want to be in this new technology. But we are not seeing ourselves in it because they subsidize and finance the efforts of their industry and we do not.

I think, Mr. Chairman, if we are going to have a proper discussions of this, we ought to bring DOE in and let DOE tell us about why it was they came to the conclusions about which we are in this great befuddlement today.

I have never seen such a big fuss over such a small matter in this committee.

The United States has, from time to time over history, submitted itself to a subordination and to a lower treatment of its rights in order to carry out some public policy, is that not right?

Order 1000 does not require interregional planning.

I will not object to any of you panel members giving additional response for the purposes of the record because that is fair to you.