What does that mean?

So stop the presses again; we have politics that are entering into this.

You are not glad to answer anybody's questions.

Prior to the Affordable Health Care Act, at least 50 million American didn't have health care. Why? Because they couldn't afford it.

this is exactly, contrary to what President Obama promised us with the most open administration.

You are actually effectuating and administrating taxpayers' dollars.

Keep in mind that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act essentially would stop States from going forward, so we asked basically for a waiver of that. The amendment would have provided for a waiver so States would have no legal bar to…

I want to thank the gentleman from Minnesota, Congressman Ellison, for his leadership in the Progressive Caucus and to thank him for yielding me some time to talk about this momentous decision by the Supreme Court. First of all, a little…

The gentleman is right. The gentleman is correct. When you think of how many people--most bankruptcies, they're connected to people not being able to pay hospital bills. Any single family has known the dread of having one individual get…

Oh, that's right. Think about this now. You can have insurance, and if you run up against lifetime caps on coverage, you're out of luck. So many Americans have gotten in trouble financially because, even though they have insurance, they…

I would just ask for a moment to conclude here. Why am I bringing this up about the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant? Some people would say: Why shouldn't you give FirstEnergy the benefit of the doubt? This is a company that 10 years ago…

FirstEnergy, which operates the Davis- Besse nuclear power plant, has consistently misrepresented to the public structural defects in the building that shields its reactor. Their latest fable is that cracks in the circumference of the…

I thank the Speaker. I spoke here a minute ago on the floor of the House concerning my deep and abiding concern about a nuclear power plant in the State of Ohio called the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. This power plant, from the time it…

I ask the Chair if it would be possible for me to have unanimous consent to yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from Minnesota. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Unanimous consent is not required. Under the Speaker's announced policy of…

I'm going to shortly yield and ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from Minnesota would be able to have the balance of the time.

But when you have a centralized government and a centralization of power on business part, you put those two things together, there is a different philosophy at work here.

But the risk was low, is that what you are saying?

Because otherwise you would be stuck with a white elephant.

We cannot be unmindful of the fact that we are designing systems here which do pick winners and losers.

this is all about centralization of power, literally. We could have a different model, we could be decentralizing power, we could be investing in decentralization of power, get more people involved in manufacturing, let's say…

Ultimately, today's hearing gets to the core of the problem with government pretending that it can be a venture capitalist.

The system is rotten; it is up for sale, and the unfortunate assumption or the assumption that occurs about this unfortunate nexus between money and power is inarguable.

One of Congress's main goals in creating the 1705 loan guarantee program was to spur technological advances in renewable energy technology.

the Majority has documented that Prologis's Project AMP has yet to start generating solar energy.

I think that this Committee could be ever more effective in its work if we were to have Goldman Sachs and Bank of America here to answer questions about their involvement.