I look forward to hearing the testimony of all of our witnesses today.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Mimi Walters).

The gentlelady said what the American people care about. Well, a Marist poll released this month found that 68 percent of the respondents oppose taxpayer funding for abortion. A February 2014 CNN poll showed that 56 percent of the…

Might I inquire of the time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Colorado has 10\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), another eloquent pro-life force. Mr. LaMALFA. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, today, I am glad to be a Californian who is…

Again, on the so-called compromise, I offered the Hyde language in the committee, and we won in a bipartisan vote. Chairman Waxman recessed, changed the votes, stripped it out, and brought it to the floor without Hyde. I was involved in…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeGETTE. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Indiana (Mrs. Walorski).

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio, Steve Chabot, another pro-life champion and the principal sponsor of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.

First of all, abortion is not health care. It is a brutal procedure that ends the lives of unborn children through suction, dismemberment, decapitation, or chemical poison. It is the most violent form of death known to mankind. As…

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Wagner).

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California, Mr. Kevin McCarthy, our distinguished majority leader in this Congress. Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, we are here today, taking a step…

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Kansas (Ms. Jenkins).

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the pro-life leader in the House of Representatives for many years.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee, Diane Black, another pro-life spokesperson.

The Hyde language does not apply to ObamaCare. There is not one sentence in this 2,700-page bill. Read the bill. It applies to Medicaid and to annually appropriated programs.

First, I want to thank Chris Smith for his leadership over the years. He is one of the people, along with Henry Hyde, that I admired from afar, and when I was elected 18 years ago, I told him I want to come and hold up his arms in this…

Some argue that SGR reform does not need to be paid for. I respectfully disagree.

I would like to welcome everyone to the first Health Subcommittee hearing of the 114th Congress and officially welcome our new members on both sides.

We can protect the low-income folks. We came up with a definition in this committee of what we consider more low income.

Controlling costs alone without considering revenue is not a realistic approach to Medicare solvency and putting our Nation's seniors at risk.

Not paying for SGR reform would ignore past precedent from Congress.

The American people expect Congress to live within our means.

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