Frank Pallone

I spent 10 years of my life with our former colleague, Henry Hyde, working on the Water for the Poor Act, and then its implementation.

We must be cognizant that the American people do support strengthening U.S. humanitarian and development programs around the country--around the world, but I don't believe they realize that it is the small percentage of our budget.

I hope that this subcommittee retains the provisions that I have worked on for many, many years, barring the establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But my problem is that NOAA's national catch share policies explicitly states that NOAA does not advocate the use of individual private anglers or catch shares.

I am confident that work for the Partnership for Mid-Atlantic Fishery Statistics that is occurring in my district and along the Mid-Atlantic is a glowing example of the success of cooperative research.

Your study predicts that the health reform will strengthen the economy and the job market by creating 250,000 to 400,000 jobs a year for the next decade.

I think that in fact the Affordable Care Act helps to create thousands of jobs in the public and private health care sectors.

We are trying to eliminate programs that will work to this effect.

The Affordable Care Act has taken numerous steps to address these shortages

The Affordable Care Act is the largest deficit-reducing bill enacted by Congress in the last decade

I think that the effort on the part of the Republicans to basically discredit you is baseless.

It seems that we couldn't slip much past you, try as the Republicans think we might.

I am very frustrated because I feel that you came here and you did the best...

Fifty million people couldn't get health insurance. Health care costs were increasing so rapidly. We needed to do something.

The deficit crisis we find ourselves in is a man-made crisis, in fact, it is a Republican-made crisis.

The Affordable Care Act has been the largest deficit-reducing bill passed by Congress in the last decade.

So if the Republicans want to spend another Wednesday morning discussing the true effects of the Affordable Care Act today, I am game, but I think we really need to get back to work and try to create jobs instead of wasting our time trying…

I will remind you that the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the Affordable Care Act will reduce the deficit by $124 billion by 2019 and further cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years.

We are proud that Americans will no longer be held hostage to insurance companies as a result of the reforms in our legislation.

I am very proud that the Affordable Care Act will control health care spending by making important delivery system changes that reward quality, not quantity of care.

We are supposed to be trying to turn the economy around and create jobs.

It is pretty clear that the Republicans believe that if you just keep saying the same thing over and over again, it will start to be believed.

I was rather shocked to see the cuts in this program in the continuing resolution.

H.R. 1 also cuts $30 million from EPA's brownfields program.

H.R. 1 contains a provision that would block EPA's oversight of mountaintop removal mining.