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

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

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

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.

I want to follow up on what my friend from Massachusetts said when he was talking about the cuts in H.R. 1 to research and development. We find in New Jersey, which is the third-largest State in the country for health care research and…

the proposed EPA budget will provide EPA with the funding it needs to meet its core mission.

EPA has a very simple but important mission to protect human health and the environment.

It is cuts like this that lead many economists to say that the Republican CR would simply destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs.

It disturbs me because whether I go to the Health Subcommittee or I go to the Environment Subcommittee or the Energy Subcommittee, I just don't see any effort on the part of the Republicans here or on the floor to create jobs.

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.

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