Steven Horsford

One additional area that I would like to touch on and ask, maybe, my colleague to expound upon is that, under those Bush-era tax cuts, it included tax cuts to companies that ship jobs overseas, which contributed, did it not, to that…

Their conclusion was actually that we need to expand early voting to help voters.

During the 2012 election we saw lines stretching so long that people couldn't even get to vote.

In my opinion, political activity should be strictly limited based on the statute.

What happened here today was an ongoing theatrics to continue the partisanship about relitigating an election that is over.

I'm not here as a Democratic; I'm here as a representative of the constituents of Nevada's fourth that elected me to serve them.

It's unfortunate that, one, our Ranking Member Mr. Cummings was attacked in this hearing.

So it is not funded by taxpayers.

I really think that we need to, again, get away from the rhetoric, look at the facts.

The reinsurance program will help health plans meet the needs of high-cost enrollees who previously have not had health insurance coverage, while making individual market premiums more affordable for consumers.

I appreciate the panel this morning and this hearing, but one of the areas that I would like to focus on, since I am towards the end of this hearing, is on the significant changes within the Affordable Care Act dealing with preexisting…

I think the President was exactly right when he said last week middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot; poor kids do.

``They need our assistance in these difficult times, and we cannot let them down.'' The unemployment rate then was 6 percent. It is much higher now. That Congress voted 416-4 to extend unemployment benefits, and under George W. Bush they…

We have to get this done and get it done in a way where there is a win-win-win-win-win.

To somehow suggest that it is because of the Obamacare that these issues are happening is to fail to recognize the history of the problems in the healthcare system to begin with.

I have signed letters with my colleagues on the other side in favor of these reforms. I am prepared to work on legislation to bring these needed reforms forward.

So if the Congress worked to fix the problem with the lack of reimbursement to cover the cost to the providers providing care under Medicare and Medicaid, that would help, not hurt, correct?

Isn't the real issue that you all, as the provider community, want this Congress to focus on, as many of the doctors in my district in Nevada have talked to me about, is the need to reform the reimbursement rates under Medicare…

One of the concerns I do have, however, is the estimated cost, which could be as high as $68 billion.

In that remaining time, I would like to yield to my colleague, Mr. Jeffries, for any concluding remarks that he has, and then I will close out this Special Order hour.

Unfortunately, there also seems to be some misrepresentation of some of the facts that are being presented today.

I would like to thank you for your opening comments to Mr. Sklar that this is in no way personal.

We need to make sure that it is not disproportionately impacting, you know, based on race, ethnicity, and religion.

I would like to ask the administrator if he could go ahead and answer the question about the TSA not being able to have a preapproved vendor list, what the challenges are to implementing the process.

You have got to do it with the inputs of your stakeholders and with Congress, which signed legislation putting this responsibility under the TSA.