Anthony Weiner

So the Chair is deciding, notwithstanding the fact that a Member is standing here to speak about the plan to end Medicare, not to mention Members are here seeking to be recognized, I believe of both parties, the Chair is choosing at this…

Point of parliamentary inquiry. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Under the rule, Members are entitled to 5 minutes to speak to the matter at hand. Members are waiting; principally among them is myself waiting at the microphone to be recognized for that purpose. And now it sounds like you are proceeding…

The effect of the law, if this were to become law, is that basically you are saying to a citizen, you are going to outsource your rulemaking and your regulatory structure to another state.

I think actually this is an interesting conversation about whether or not you should have insurance regulated by states.

The other side was a wholly owned subsidiary of the health insurance industry called the Grand Old Party.

I will not stipulate to the idea that the President didn't live up to his responsibility by having the process out in the open.

It is irresponsible, wrong and a dereliction for the administration not to send a witness.

But make no mistake about it. It was a successful strategy politically, but now they have to govern and they're seeing how hard it is.

I think it's a relatively small number of Americans, but it's a very loud voice here in Washington, who want to go back and relitigate a lot of things we have kind of declared peace on over the years.

For the Republicans to say, sure, we voted no on every single measure for the last two years and now wonder why nothing got done, nothing got done because they obstructed it.

This is a setup of the fights to come. It is very clear watching this debate that we have a pro-choice country and an anti-choice legislature and they're flexing their muscles.

So if you reduce the amount of health care costs or move that burden to a program that provides competition like an exchange, that lower burden on health care costs will mean that at least in theory employers will have the ability now to…

Democrats support a tax credit for people offering health insurance and the Republicans are against it because if you repeal this bill, it would disappear.

If you save money with a policy change in the bill by having good ideas in the bill, could you not only save money but extend Medicare from 2017 to 2029?

Let me just say very briefly, the gentleman from Michigan is correct. We don't directly do what is described in the rule, but the effect is that it is indisputable that someone who is in one tax bracket after this bill will move into…

Reclaiming my time, first of all, show some respect. They're goats. Second of all, and if you are referring to a press conference that went awry that I had where I perhaps might have been bitten by a goat, I will say this: I believe that…

Now I would say to the ranking member, I'm from Queens. I'm from New York City. So I thought mohair was a guy named Moe who had long hair. But I now know that it is a subsidy that dates back to World War I when our uniforms were made with…

Thank you. Once again, I have no intention of taking the full measure of my time. This is an amendment that has been discussed on this floor many times. Unfortunately, it keeps coming back. We provide subsidies believe it or not----

You've got to understand, in the context of this CR, we have a binary choice: fund/don't fund. I agree, I would like there to be oversight since 1985 over this and to answer this question. To be very clear, you are not entirely correct…

I just want to make sure that it's clear what we're saying. I don't think anyone who supports this amendment believes they should cease to exist. You can go to their Web site. They also have the benefit of being a beneficiary of private…

If the gentleman would yield, I also think we need to change the way we think here. A lot of us are, like, why would you want to defund anything with peace in its name?

Does the gentleman not believe that the Council on Foreign Relations is good or the Foreign Policy Research Institute or the Brookings Institute or all of the other institutes that do similar work but that don't live in this gilded…

The gentleman correctly points out some of the great things they're doing on behalf of the Department of Defense. Is the gentleman aware that the United States Institute of Peace gets, in addition to the money that I've identified here…

He has to recuse himself because the appearance is clearly there that he has a stake in the outcome.