I would like to underscore a couple of points that the gentleman is making here. The first is the fact that this does disproportionately affect the poor and those who are striving to become a part of the middle class. At the same time…

I thank the gentleman from New York for your leadership and commitment to this issue. You have come to this floor on many occasions to talk about the important issues facing our country, and you are always inclusive and factual. You make a…

I thank the gentleman. I would like to debunk another myth, and that is: just let the charities handle it. We have a number of great nonprofits out there, the church community, the faith-based community, can step up and fill the void…

Thank you to the gentleman from New York, the co-anchor for this Special Order hour, Representative Jeffries. I look forward to a dialogue on this, but let me just underscore what it is we are faced with in this House of Representatives…

It is past time for this Congress to work together to improve the Affordable Care Act. This law can be improved, but it is also helping people throughout this country and in my home State of Nevada. One example that I would like to share…

I just want to associate myself with the comments of the Ranking Members and the other panelists who have talked about the need to both protect our National security while preserving Americans' right to privacy and our civil liberties.

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.

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

So I would like to ask if I can follow up with you and someone from your office in that regard to make sure that that process is clear to the local airport directors?

Isn't it true that your plan to transfer responsibility of exit lanes from the TSA to local airport authorities has been met with near universal resistance from local airports?

So on that exit lane issue which I raised earlier with you, and your point was you guys can't afford it so you are going to shift that burden to local airports, local airports have budget constraints, too.

I think in light of the resent tragic events at the Los Angeles airport, airport security is once again in the fore.

I recently offered an amendment to Ranking Member Thompson's bill, the Aviation Security Stakeholder Participation Act, which will form the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.

I also sit on the Homeland Security Committee, we are having a hearing also this morning on this subject.

Do you believe the site poses any unreasonable risks to consumers?

From my understanding, obviously the HIPAA rules as established set Federal standards to protect individually identifiable health information.

The Department of Homeland Security is required to meet those Federal privacy and security standards, correct?

What has been more troubling is the fact that this has been turned into more of a game than it has been about how we can work together to fix the problems of the site.

I want to fist associate myself with the comments of the Ranking Member and several other Members of the committee who, like myself listening to my constituents, am concerned about where things stand with the roll-out of the Affordable…

This is an important hearing. Our constituents are rightfully concerned about their right to be able to access affordable health care on the website, Healthcare.gov.

Is Healthcare.gov any more or less risky to consumers than other sites, including private company information?

I am rather insulted by this House Republican playbook----

Can you explain why you believe consumers should have confidence that their information is secure?

On October 1st, 2012, the Inspector General's office publicly released a report issuing 49 recommendations on conference oversight, internal controls and spending.