Joe Pitts: “At this time I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler).”

Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked…

The time of 10 o'clock having arrived, I will call this subcommittee meeting to order.

It is unfortunate that we have a Congress of the United States, the majority parties that want to just tear down this law.

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.