Erik Paulsen

I also want to rise in strong support of repealing this misguided CLASS Act. We knew from the start that the CLASS Act was fiscally unsustainable. But the President and those who supported the new health care law used this and inserted it…

Thank you and thank you Dr. Boustany for introducing this legislation. I rise today as a co-sponsor of H.R. 3567, the Welfare Integrity Now for Children and Families Act because at a time when millions of Americans are still out of work…

Tomorrow is February 1, and I want to recognize the month of February as being American Heart Month. Contrary to popular belief, heart disease does not discriminate by gender. It is the number one killer of both men and women and accounts…

In closing, again, this legislation continues TANF and related programs for an additional 9 months--it was going to run out on December 31--while making both needed and also bipartisan reforms and changes that are going to improve program…

I just want to thank the gentleman for raising the issue about ensuring that TANF recipients can access their benefits in a variety of locations. I will say the bill that we are considering here on the floor today requires States to block…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 420, noes 0, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 924] AYES--420…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise as a cosponsor and a strong supporter of the REINS Act. This is legislation that will bring forward reform, accountability, and transparency to the Federal rulemaking process. You know what, it's…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I also want to thank my colleague from Florida for her leadership, along with the Members of the Arizona delegation, for putting this resolution together which is so important. I have had the honor…

November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. And as this month comes to a close, I want to draw attention to H.R. 1897, the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act. With over 5 million Americans suffering from this degenerative disease…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the balanced budget amendment. Since our country was first founded, the issue of debt and government spending has been at the forefront of the minds of our political…

I want to congratulate the Wayzata High School girls soccer team on winning this year's Class 2A State championship. This is a team that embodies the philosophy of practice makes perfect. Every day throughout the season, this team would…

Aside from having one of the best academic programs in Minnesota, the Eden Prairie School District is now home to new State champions in two sports: boys' soccer and girls' volleyball. Despite going up against an undefeated team, the Eden…

I thank the gentleman again for his leadership and for really standing up for Pennsylvania companies and understanding this is an American success story, as he outlined. He is actually a coauthor of some bills that are there to streamline…

I thank the gentleman. I'm not sure how much time we have left in our colloquy, Mr. Speaker. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.

I thank the gentleman for being a leader. When folks think of States like California, they think of high technology and medical devices, but it's the investors who have a large component in States like California that invest in these…

As you mentioned, I think one of the things that folks don't often recognize, the medical device industry is high-value manufacturing. Boy, I think of a State like California and the high- value manufacturing that exists there. I visited…

I thank the gentleman again for his leadership. I just want to mention too, you had mentioned all the authors of this bill that are trying to repeal this onerous tax. There are actually 204 Members now, Mr. Speaker, that want to repeal…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the next few minutes, some of us who are members of the Medical Technology Caucus are going to share some of our thoughts about some of the recent troubling developments that are threatening this American…

We just recently concluded National Teen Driver Safety Week, which is the third week of every October. It's a week to help create awareness and focus attention on solutions for unnecessary teen driving deaths. Each year motor vehicle…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I also rise in favor of H.R. 674, a bill that will repeal this ill-conceived 3 percent withholding rule for all government contractors, including private hospitals that accept Medicare or…

Last week I spent a day traveling my district and meeting with half a dozen women entrepreneurs. I started the morning spending time with children in Maple Grove, Minnesota, at the LilyPad Daycare that is owned by a dynamic mom and…

I thank the chairman for his leadership because this is an exciting day, an important time for our economy. I strongly urge passage of all three of these long-stalled free trade agreements which will promote exports, with new sales to new…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And I also thank you for your leadership on the Trade Subcommittee. Mr. Speaker, there's no doubt with our economy struggling Washington should be doing everything it can to give our job creators the…

48,000 Americans a year walk out of their doctor's office with the news that they have pulmonary fibrosis, joining the nearly 200,000 Americans already afflicted with this little understood killer. There is no known cure for this lethal…

Last year, as part of the new health care reform law, a new $20 billion tax on medical devices was put in place. Since the day this ill-conceived tax was first proposed on medical innovation, I have said it would reduce access to new…