I first want to note that this is our first Subcommittee hearing of the 112th Congress and your first as Chairman.

I am sorry. I regret that she was denied permission to testify.

It is an unprecedented attack on women, on families, on their rights under the Constitution.

You are just trying to have your cake and eat it too, because either a tax exemption is a government subsidy or it is not.

Obviously, we need high speed rail.

You are not going to get private sector investment on a long term project if you have very uneven public sector involvement.

How can we get the private sector to cooperate with the public sector, because neither is going to do it alone?

I hope the Republicans as a whole don't go along with that; who knows.

We should be able to go ahead with that rapidly.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Republican effort to deny 32 million Americans health care, to deny millions of middle class Americans the ability to get health care insurance if they have preexisting conditions and to drive up…

Let me first thank everyone who has worked on this bill and say the Senate passed this bill a little while ago unanimously. The most conservative Senators, Senators Enzi and Coburn, supported it, and I hope we can do the same. Nine years…

Mr. Speaker, I'm going to oppose this bill, however the rule comes out, for several reasons. Number one, if this bill passes, we will extend the upper income tax cuts at a cost of increase in the deficit by $700 billion over 10 years…