I am opposed to this bill because I didn't think it was honest with the American people, and the chairman says he wants to be honest. I am just surprised that he is responding to this, because I don't think too many people believe this is…

I want to thank you so much for pulling together this special hour. I got from New York a little late, and in working, I turned on the TV and saw these eloquent spokespeople, and I am just so glad I got here in time before our time has…

At this time, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman), the former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee that played such an important role in bringing this historic legislation to the floor and to the law…

I yield myself, Mr. Speaker, such time as I may consume. I think, Mr. Speaker, this is about the 52nd time that the Republican majority has attempted to either repeal or derail the Affordable Care Act. I don't know why they do it so often…

I just don't know what part of the Constitution the gentleman doesn't understand, but the truth of the matter is that this law passed the House of Representatives, passed the Senate, was signed into law, and verified by the United States…

Thank you, Chairman Levin. Mr. Speaker, this bill has nothing to do with paying the doctors who work every day in giving medical care to Medicare patients. It has to do with destroying the Affordable Care Act for the 51st time. I am…

My colleagues, there is a cancer growing in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as much of a Democrat as I am, I hate to see this happen because our government is based on a two-party system. Now this cancer, this…

Let me thank my friend and my colleague from New York for bringing this important issue to the attention of our Congress and the Nation. Mr. Speaker, it is a strange thing about those Americans who have been raised in poor communities…

If someone were to read the history of the United States, they would think that all the Democrats in this country were poor and all the Republicans were rich. In the last few years of this Presidency, it amazes me how the Republicans have…

Let me first thank the gentlelady from California for carrying this torch during a time that there seems to be such a lack of sensitivity to the poor. As with Lyndon Johnson, there was a concentration of those people who vote--that is, the…

Let me thank Congressman Engel for the compassion which he has demonstrated for the families of those that survived, those that are injured, and those that have been lost. While all of us are anxious to see the results of the…

Let me thank Congressman Waxman for giving me this opportunity. The majority has said that Presidents are remembered by certain things, and this outstanding President will be remembered because he said, if you have a plan--and he didn't…