I just wanted to follow up with a little feedback that goes well beyond this Chamber. Certainly we know that if ObamaCare passes, we won't start to see the benefits in any way, and I happen to believe they're not benefits until 2013, 2014…

You know, you named a lot of States who are getting a lot of sweeteners. A lot of States are being paid off, bought out, you know, buyouts, it really comes down to corruption, I think. If we see this type of deal-making out in the private…

From The Cincinnati Enquirer to The Washington Post, the editorials today tell the Democrats to stop this health care reform and start again. I agree because I've always based my work on health care on increasing access. This bill fails at…

The President just had a physical and is apparently very healthy. Among the tests he had was a virtual colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. A virtual colonoscopy employs x ray technology that produces a three-dimensional image of…

We are all committed to lowering the health care costs for every single American. That is a principle that we all should be doing the right things towards. And there are solutions out there that we have worked on and introduced. The…

The American people have woken up and are paying attention and engaging on this issue. When it comes to health care, I think the large majority of Americans share the same perspective I do, and it is a perspective I developed as a health…

Absolutely. And what we are talking about today goes well beyond Medicare. I thought Medicare and Medicaid were complex. This new proposal, this Senate bill that is being pushed at us, HIPAA, the impact of costs on health care just from…

It is with a heavy heart that I rise today and speak of the death of Pennsylvania State Trooper Paul G. Richey. On January 13, Richey responded to a domestic dispute call. He volunteered because he had taken a call at that residence…

America is successful because of her citizens. And tonight, I want to share and talk about and recognize three such individuals from Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, the first is Donald Mellott. On Friday, February 12, 2010…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 362, expressing the support of the House of Representatives for the goals and ideals of the National School Lunch Program. The National School Lunch Program was first established by…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1111, designating March 2, 2010, as ``Read Across America Day.'' Once upon a time, when there were no televisions or computers, reading was a primary leisure activity. People would…

Dana's best friend, Rex, was alive. However, the reunion was short-lived as Rex was scheduled to be brought back into service. Growing up in Smethport, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's Fifth Congressional District, Dana has always loved…

Thank you, Dr. Burgess. I really appreciate what my good friend from Texas is doing in terms of his leadership with the Congressional Health Care Caucus. It's refreshing in this Chamber to deal with folks who have the facts and have the…

I have to wonder with that because I see premiums like announcements, and they are going up. And this is why we're committed to doing the right type of smart government solutions to bring the costs of health care down, the premiums down…

Some observations of the proceedings that I watched today when I had an opportunity to tune in in my office--I wasn't on the invitation list to be there. It was pretty limited invitations. But I heard--and I don't know which leader it was…

I rise today actually in celebration of the recognition of the 100th anniversary of a great, value-laden, principle-driven organization, the Boy Scouts of America. It was 100 years ago this month that led to the formal organization of the…

Well, you have touched on so many very important issues during that time, during the course of this hour. I certainly want to come back to--you know, when I started in health care, I mean, the patients were not a part of the treatment…

I thank my good friend, Mr. Kanjorski, for yielding and this opportunity to take time to remember and to recognize the life and the public service of Congressman John Murtha. As a freshman, and being here 14 months, I had the opportunity…

Yesterday was a landmark day. I think it established a pretty confident trend of what the American people like and what they dislike. And what they dislike I think is properly captured and framed in that chart that you have on the tripod…

It has to be something like this: ``We don't care what it is, let's just pass something, whatever it might be.'' The goal is just to get something through to be able to say they did something. Well, that is wrong. That is not the approach…

If the gentleman will yield, my background is rehabilitation services. I have seen where these types of medical devices--and it is not just wheelchairs. That is an understatement. It is insulin. It is crutches. It is canes. It is…

When we look at the State of Pennsylvania, the conservative estimates are that the Senate bill provision with the huge expansion of the Medicaid rolls, which is truly just shifting it to the States without funding, $2.4 billion to the…

Well, I just couldn't agree more. I think yesterday was a statement that the American people--what they want and what they expect from our leadership is that we do our best to provide safety, prosperity and liberty, the freedoms within…

So for every dollar of cost, the physicians are already losing significant moneys. That 21 percent cut that you talked about, that's on top of that.

Absolutely. I believe, actually, it was the Tennessee Governor, a Democrat, who coined the term that this Senate bill and the Medicaid, the shoving of the increased Medicaid rolls and shifting that over to the State was, ``the mother of…