Patrick J. Tiberi

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the underlying bill today, which goes a long way toward job creation. Jobs, jobs, jobs. We heard about that in the November election. We heard about the fact that small business…

Seniors are frightened that they are losing coverage in reality that they had and they liked, that they chose.

the reality on the ground, at least in central Ohio, is people are not being able to keep what they have.

We believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a threat to U.S. businesses, and will place a crushing debt burden on future generations of Americans.

What an honor and privilege it is to be a Member of this House, and what an amazement it is to me to hear this debate that I have heard so much in the past. The road to prosperity is not through tax increases. The road to prosperity in…

Madam Speaker, as was just said, regulated investment companies, better known as mutual funds to most Americans and to us, are intended to provide individual investors the ability to invest easily and with low cost in a diversified pool of…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee as well for being here on the floor to recognize that 50 years ago, in fact, this week, President Eisenhower signed into law legislation that created real estate investment trusts, or REITs, as the…

Well, I thank the gentleman from northeastern Ohio and the Cleveland suburbs in Lake County for organizing this hour today, and I think you've really hit on some of the important points. When you kind of go back over a year ago when the…

Well, I thank the gentleman. You know, the bottom line is there are a lot of people in our State that are hurting. There are a lot of people in Ohio that would like a job. There are a lot of people in Michigan that would like a job…

Well, I thank the gentleman for yielding on this matter and for bringing this up because we've spent a lot of hours on issues right behind you that are not life-or-death issues. Just a couple weeks ago, we spent less than an hour on an…

Just last week, back in central Ohio, as we were home during the Memorial Day recess week, I convened a meeting--and I'm a former Realtor, a recovering Realtor. We had real estate folks on the commercial real estate side. We had small…

Fifteen percent. Mr. LaTOURETTE. Okay. Now, what's going to happen when the majority party indicates that it is not going to take any action? Again, as they're not on the budget, as they're not on the transportation bill, as they're not on…

I am for health care reform, but not this version. This is a bad bill. It does nothing to address the cost of health care. This bill increases taxes on individuals and employers. It cuts Medicare and adds debt to future generations. But…

This chart was put together before we found out that not just health care was going to be in the health care bill. That actually now we're going to be debating a student loan bill which is how the Bismarck bombshell, Bismarck bank job--but…

For all the sweetheart deals that are included in it. You know, the great thing is each one of them now has sort of a nickname that is becoming a household word in America. So I bet most people have heard of the Cornhusker kickback, most…

I was going to pick a game, and I'm going to pick the People versus the Cornhusker Kickback, but I think it is important at the very top there for you to point out on the chart that you have got at Florida Gators, and you just mentioned at…

Obviously the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee wrote most of the bill coming out of the House with the leadership on the Democratic side. And taxes are what more Americans are going to pay a heck of a lot more of. In fact, I…

So in 2014 they'll be entering kindergarten, and that is when the benefits will begin. However, the tax increases will begin right away. And in fact, the Senate bill not only increases payroll taxes, but now we have a reconciliation bill…

For the very first time, it taxes payroll for that unearned income at 3.8 percent. So 3.8 percent for the very first time on unearned income. And it actually raises by .9 percent, almost 1 percent, earned income on the payroll tax. I'm…

Our commitment to the sanctity and dignity of the unborn will not be changed; it will not be utilized in a way that is diminished simply to engage in a parliamentary attempt to defeat a bill. We will stand for principle.

And, actually, one of the Democratic leaders in the Senate took to the floor last week and in a speech actually came clean with respect to a statement that he said that actually insurance costs and health costs would continue to go up, and…

What we know is if the House takes up this rule on reconciliation on Sunday or Monday, the Senate bill will be deemed passed and on to the President's desk. That means Senator Reid will have won. The question is: Will they get the votes…

I do have a suggestion that may be a sequel to March madness, D.C. style. We could play the game of The Price is Right and talk about some of these sweetheart deals in our next hour that we have next week. MoveOn.org is, of course, the…

I think that's pretty clear; but just to further demonstrate, I had a group of students ask me, with respect to the process in Washington, D.C. because they had learned in their government book that a bill passes the House, a bill passes…

I certainly wasn't there, but I will rely on press reports of what happened. But just today, one of our Democratic colleagues who voted for the House bill and announced that he was not voting for the special rule that will deem the Senate…