Joe Crowley

This is absolutely headed for a disaster. This is an absolute crisis.

It is particularly surprising that we would be having this hearing about Asia while Mexico and Canada and our trade with them and so much is at stake.

I thank the gentleman, my friend and colleague from Kentucky, for yielding. Mr. Chairman, the Republican budget proposal is just cruel. It isn't just cruel; it will set our country backwards. It is worse than cruel. It puts more than $5…

Democrats believe that our constituents deserve a better deal, a better deal for all Americans, a plan to bring better jobs, better wages, and a better future to everyone, and a vision to give every American the opportunity to prosper and…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I look at the pictures of Houston, Galveston, and parts of Texas, and Louisiana, and elsewhere, and I harken back to the same images I saw in New Jersey, New York, throughout New…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding me this time, and I want to thank, as well, the cosponsor--actually, the lead sponsor--Mr. Roskam, for his work here today. Today is a good day for the American taxpayers as, hopefully…

On July 24 and 25, 2017, I was absent for recorded votes 407 through 413 because I was attending my son's induction into the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Rhode Island. Had I been present, I would have voted: On rollcall 407 I would…

Regardless, I think, of party line, we can all agree that fraud is a serious crime.

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 453 Resolved, That the following named Member be and is hereby elected to…

Our role as Congress should be to strengthen the integrity of the Medicare program, strengthen Medicare Trust Fund, and protect taxpayers from billions of dollars of loss that had played out.

I would hate to see these ACA provisions and the program integrity efforts initiated by the Obama administration be reversed.

Both the Trump and House tax proposals would accelerate the growing wealth divide.

There is no question that tax reform is overdue and that plans for a reform should do more for working class taxpayers.

Recent tax proposals from the Administration and House Republicans threaten to weaken the government's ability to protect and serve taxpayers and will unfairly benefit the wealthiest.

I hope we as a committee can use today's hearing to explore what steps HHS and CMS are taking to ensure we continue the progress we have been making to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare program.

On July 12, 2017, due to a family commitment I was absent for recorded votes No. 347, No. 348, and No. 349. Had I been present, on rollcall No. 347, I would have voted ``no''; on rollcall No. 348, I would have voted ``no''; and on rollcall…

By direction of the Democratic Caucus, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 439 Resolved, That the following named Member be and is hereby elected to…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Much of the same rhetoric we are hearing right now from the other side of the aisle is similar to the same rhetoric we heard back in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s against the Irish when they came to…

It is also why we have introduced the Social Security 2100 Act, because we believe so strongly that Social Security needs to be expanded and needs to be made solvent into the next century.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding me this time. I also want to thank the chairman and the ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee here in the House of Representatives for moving this bill and helping to put this…

The myriad of challenges that confront the IHS are the result of both a broader Federal civil service system that is poorly suited to the needs of the modern health care delivery system.

The ADA supports the 'medical credentialing system' provision ... that calls for the IHS to implement a Service-wide centralized credentialing system.

I think it is a remarkable opportunity and there is an incredible need out there.

I think for the integrity of the program itself, we need to be vigilant, mindful, but also understand, I think, the complexities in terms of the clientele.

I am a cosponsor of, to repeal the private debt collection program.