Renee L. Ellmers

I would like to say again to my good friend and colleague from Florida, thank you for putting forward this effort to work with us. To my colleague, Mr. Pallone, I, too, believe that we need to work together. So just know that my door is…

In closing, I just want to say again how proud I am of our Congress and our colleagues on both sides of the aisle coming together to work on very, very important legislation dealing with those who have been trafficked. Human trafficking is…

Thank you to my colleague from North Carolina for, once again, being such a strong defender of life. Madam Speaker, I rise today to offer my support for H.R. 7. I believe in the sanctity of human life and that life begins at conception and…

We are ready to close. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I just want to say again thank you to my good friend for allowing me to be a part of this. I know how important it is to her and, again, thousands and thousands…

One of the issues that I have been working on that is very important to me is access to healthcare services for children with life-threatening illnesses.

I am honored to stand before you to speak on behalf of my dear friend, the dean of our delegation, Howard Coble. He has been a source of wisdom, an esteemed colleague, and a loyal friend to all since taking office in 1985. One of the…

I just don't believe that it is acceptable that the quote that you had given us, 'we won't be able to track them,' is the reasoning for why we should not implement travel restrictions.

I believe travel restrictions need to be put in place, and now after having this subcommittee hearing, I believe even more strongly that we need them.

I thank Chairman Pitts for his leadership, and my colleague, Bill Cassidy, for this wonderful bill, H.R. 3522. This bill is very simple. It will allow people to keep the health insurance they had before ObamaCare took it away, their…

My goal is to eradicate human trafficking.

There were many promises made that have not been kept--well intended, but not true for the American people.

I would say to you, sir, that that is exactly why I ended up running for office, being a nurse, because I did see--and my husband, as a doctor, saw that the plan that was going forward was not going to be realistic.

That certainly doesn't mean that there was fraud perpetrated. It just means that there are inconsistencies and those inconsistencies need to be addressed.

You are going after the good guys to make up the dollar difference. You are not addressing the real fraud issues.

I am here to find solutions on immigration in general, but especially because of this humanitarian crisis that we are experiencing.

I think everyone that I have spoken to, regardless of party affiliation, regardless of who you are, what State you live in, everyone agrees that the border has got to be secure.

I will tell you there have been more people harmed by paying more in their health insurance and getting less coverage.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time as well. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank Chairman McKeon for allowing me to come before you today to speak on the necessity of preserving Pope Airfield's 440th Airlift Wing. I introduced this amendment…

I am a huge proponent of home care services. I think we are helping our patients, especially our Medicare patients, our most vulnerable, to stay out of the hospital setting.

Thank you to the chairman for bringing this very important legislation forward. I am pleased to be able to speak in strong support of the number of bills that we have today that will combat the problem of human sex trafficking. I would…

It is imperative that military families have the appropriate time they need to find suitable alternatives for the coverage lost.

I have serious concerns with this proposal and the negative impacts it would have on training.

Eliminating the ability to rapidly mobilize to train and deploy with local commanders... increases risk at an unacceptable rate.

I do believe there is value in making an example of a physician, a physician's office that repeatedly abuses the system.

I just don't understand why we are not going after the bad actors, those physicians who are the ones who are writing the prescriptions to those patients.