Now, the purpose of this inquiry was to discuss some health care alternatives for the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. Our hospital for 170,000 area veterans is in serious disrepair--boilers, HVAC, emergency generators. The…

I first want to thank my colleagues on the VA-MilCon Subcommittee--in particular, Mr. Fortenberry and Mr. Culberson and their staff--for their excellent work on this legislation in helping me facilitate this amendment and discussion. I…

I am baffled, too, so I appreciate your comments. Mr. Speaker, I just want to sum up here: 2,001 days since the permit for this pipeline was filed and over 22,000 pages of scientific review. This permit has been sitting around longer than…

I would even let him keep it. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________

We have just gone through an hour of talking about uninsured, and I want to talk an hour about creating jobs and that it is time to build the Keystone pipeline. The Keystone pipeline has just reached its 2,001st day of the birth of its…

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas. At this time, I want to yield to our friend from New Jersey (Mr. Lance).

We in the House have passed about 430 bills. 89 of them actually gotten out of the Senate. Well over about 100, I guess--maybe even more than 100--actually are like the Keystone pipeline, that would create--immediately create jobs, but yet…

Thank you. It was about a year ago this time that H.R. 3, one of our leadership bills, came through our Energy and Commerce Committee that would have permitted the Keystone pipeline passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support in this…

I thank the gentleman from Ohio. I think if there is someone watching C-SPAN and they watched the first hour, the Democratic hour, and now they are watching us, they are seeing how they advocated for unemployment insurance, and we are…

To clarify one thing, we did have a legislative hearing on this bill with robust debate on it in that committee hearing. Evidently, you didn't get the notice of that hearing.

We do add another part in here and another frustration from our State insurance commissioners, which is that they don't know who is selling the insurance. They would like to have the names of the people who are the navigators out there…

No, I only have 3 minutes. If I have extra time, I will. Today we are taking what should be an easy vote and, frankly, a bipartisan vote. My legislation, the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, does nothing more than ask the…