Earl Blumenauer

You are going to impose very significant cuts on hospitals. For example, the evaluation and management cap is going to impact dramatically hospitals that a number of us represent. It is going to scale up much higher costs for senior…

But Senator Hatfield understood that that was wrong. He voted against it. It failed. And what happened? We were able to move forward under a Democratic administration to be able to rein in spending. We balanced the budget for 4 consecutive…

Congress seems determined to undermine recent nutrition standards proposed by the Obama administration. It's shameful that we are poised to intervene to make sure that pizza continues to count as a vegetable and that we protect the…

We need to make sure going forward we don't have these aberrations that cause us to go through these gyrations for something that on its face really is not going to yield the economic results. Finally, I hope we can work together in the…

I think we ought to look a little more broadly at who benefits and who loses from this...

I would like to just have, if I could, some sort of written assessment of where exactly we are in this drama that has been going on for years which they promised they would do, and then get a sense of what we could do to just deny them…

The Federal Government is bigger than any company or union.

And work to make sure that they have the resources to do their jobs right, and to stop making them political footballs. I've had my disagreements over the years with EPA, but I respect the men and women who work there. I understand the…

I particularly appreciate your putting before us the potential of changing the dysfunctional congressional structure itself.

I think we ought to take this very good, clean extension, use the 6 months to be able to build on a foundation of the original ISTEA, right-size it, accept the recommendations of broad bipartisan commissions that we need to be spending…

Thank you. I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and interest in at least looking at it. {time} 1810 Mr. Speaker, one of the things that we have done with the trade agenda in 2007 was establish environmental protections which are part of…

As we move forward, hopefully we won't be dealing with the expiration in the future. I'm wondering if the gentleman would entertain working with us and, as we come forward in the course of a replacement, if we might consider including…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon will be postponed. Amendment No. 10 Offered by Mr. Carnahan The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I think we ought to be more optimistic about this.

I would take modest exception to my friend's characterization that IPAB takes the control out of Congress and puts it inevitably towards rationing and price control.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. King of Iowa

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new section: Sec. __. None of the…

And Mr. Chair, on that note I, too, commend what my friend from Wisconsin is doing. I look forward to the comments from my friend from Arizona. If we're serious about reform and saving money, it's time to move in this area. I yield back…

To having an agricultural policy that serves our interests, those of our children, our families; that gives more to farmers and ranchers and less to international farmers and huge agribusiness interests; that doesn't slash environmental…

Thank you. The more limited these indemnification provisions can be, the less likely that we're going to have contractors who don't really have the full financial incentive to make sure that they are acting in the best interests of our…

The mess we have got is imposed by Congress

We are not a high-tax country, compared to the other developed countries around the world.

I hope that this is one that is not in that category.

If we could just follow up on this for a moment, because you are talking about something that ought to concern each and every citizen. Medicaid. In your State Medi-Cal. We've had the Oregon health plan. There are other States that have…

Let me turn, if I could, to my good friend on the Rules Committee for purposes of yielding to a question, if he would. I was just curious. I had an amendment before the Rules Committee. I noticed you waived germaneness on other questions…