We have got to move forward on malpractice reform. Our colleagues ask the question, How can malpractice be put in place at the Federal level? And yet they have put Federal health care as an issue and put control as an issue. We must…
Renee L. Ellmers
The Public Record
I thank the chairman for this opportunity to speak with my colleagues as a nurse and a wife of a general surgeon. Mr. Chairman, IPAB was created under ObamaCare to slash Medicare spending by restricting health care services for seniors in…
I would like to thank the chairman for bringing this very, very important piece of legislation to the floor for a vote. I'm here to join my colleagues in support of H.R. 4105, which will protect the free market and prevent American…
I thank the gentleman. H.R. 4105 will ensure that the Department of Commerce can continue to apply countervailing duty and anti-subsidy laws to nonmarket economies that are violating current law. At the same time, we need robust trade…
Yesterday afternoon, I happily signed the conference report that was very, very well put together; and I commend Chairman Camp for the hard work that he did and my fellow conferees. This joint conference committee came together, and it was…
The President has submitted another bloated budget that ignores the economic crisis we are all living through under the Obama economy. It's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work on removing these barriers to prosperity and focus on…
I thank my freshman colleague from New York for yielding. I've been watching this discussion, this debate going on, and I am once again amazed by the issue. I am in favor of this motion to instruct. In fact, I am so much in favor of it…
I thank my colleague from California. Your perspective alone, as a small business owner and as a farmer, really gives us that strong idea of what we're really facing. Many of us here in Washington now are and have been small business…
I thank the gentleman from Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I just want to take the opportunity to say in closing that, as a small business owner with my husband back in Dunn, North Carolina, with our surgical practice, that we have faced exactly what…
I thank my colleague from Illinois for that very important information. Again, as a small business owner, this information is vital to the solutions that we're coming up with here in Washington. We're not just Members of Congress who don't…
I will just echo my colleague's remarks by saying that, according to the NFIB, compliance with environmental regulations costs small businesses four times more than larger firms. Larger firms do have the ability and employees in place to…
I am here tonight with my colleagues to discuss the importance of small business in America. Small businesses are our job creators in America, and we here in Congress must do everything that we can to help them to be doing exactly that in…





