On rollcall No. 1, I was unavoidably detained for quorum vote. If I had been here, I would have voted ``present.''

Thank you so much for this opportunity to speak here with the Doctors Caucus on these very important issues. You were bringing up a very important piece to this puzzle. As far as the American people are concerned with their health care…

Thank you to my kind doctor colleagues on that issue. Dr. Roe, you hit on one of the very important parts, again, which is if you had something that works for you, if a mom was buying health care coverage for her family, she was the one…

On rollcall Nos. 592 and 593, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' personal explanation

Today is day 10 of ObamaCare exchanges being up, or supposedly being up. We now know the problems with the exchanges are not just due to high traffic; rather, technology experts have reported the real problems are with the actual structure…

On rollcall No. 536, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced…

We are granted the power of the purse strings here in Congress, so we are right and reasonable by using that power. Yesterday, the House led and acted responsibly by providing yet another plan to get parts of this government back open…

Thank you to my colleague from Georgia. Mr. Speaker, this is such an important issue on which to be speaking here at the House. I rise in support of the Research for Lifesaving Cures Act and in support of the funding of the NIH in order to…

I have the distinct honor and privilege to represent Fort Bragg in my district; and I found out yesterday evening that, despite passing funding to keep our military paid and to keep our military civilians paid, there have been over 7,000…

Thank you to my distinguished colleague from Kansas, vice chair of our Republican Conference. Thank you for yielding time to discuss this situation that's at hand right now. Right now, we're faced with this government shutdown. Right now…

Thank you so much to my distinguished colleague from Georgia. This is such an important day. We have reached day one of the ObamaCare exchange being up. If you look at the chart that we have up, very similar, Congressman Gingrey, to that…

You know, and that gets to the greater point that the gentleman points out. This objective, when President Obama put it forward--I go back to the summer of 2009. I was not in any position to ever considering running for office; working as…