Joe Pitts

I find it ironic that this majority who for so long has been champions of State government, State and local control are supporting a bill that would impose a Federal one-size-fits-all solution.

It will not lower premiums. It will not even stabilize them. Instead, this proposal will penalize innocent victims of medical neglect--negligence.

The current medical liability system does not work for anyone especially patients who need access to quality healthcare.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, nearly 20 percent of the physicians who practice primary care say they will leave Pennsylvania in 5 years or less.

The real threat to job creation is the threat of repealing this law and going back to a system that stacks the deck against me.

Medicare also has potentially 10 to 20 percent of its receipts going out in fraud, so maybe there is something to be said for overhead.

American families need help now. They need protection from insurance companies dropping their coverage, they need help in providing health coverage for their college students, and they need help to afford their prescriptions under…

If my friends on the other side of the aisle want to create jobs, why repeal the Affordable Care Act, which will add 400,000 jobs a year for the next 10 years?

If the intent of reforming the health care system was indeed to bend the cost curve, then it looks like mission accomplished. Unfortunately, we bent it in the wrong direction.

CBO's estimate of total spending on coverage expansions in PPACA grew from $938 billion last March to $1.445 trillion.

The true cost of Obamacare is worse than what any of us expected--higher premiums, more federal health spending, fewer jobs.

Yet, as Mr. Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee last month, he expects the law will cost 800,000 jobs by 2021.

CBO, however, projects that the real cost of the coverage expansions will be $229 billion in 2020 and $245 billion in 2021.

This is simply not sustainable for my home state, or any other.

In light of this, the administration has eliminated the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, an office within DOE expressly created by statute.

In light of your opening statement, I believe if I can paraphrase it, you said nuclear power should continue to be a key part of our national energy policy, is that correct?

What I don't understand is why my Republican colleagues now want to impose an avalanche of new paperwork on small businesses.

The Republican's first priority, H.R. 1, I am not saying this, but outside groups are saying, is cutting 700,000 American jobs.

We have heard a lot of rhetoric lately about eliminating burdens on small businesses.

Now priority number three, placing burdens on small businesses, hindering economic growth and job creation and intruding on the American people's ability to make decisions about their health without Uncle Sam sitting at their bedside.

The second priority, H.R. 2, repealing the American people's access to some kind of health care and the same type of health care that Members of Congress receive and adding $230 billion to our deficit.

The countries of Kazakhstan, Morocco, Egypt, and Iraq are boycotting. That's shameful. It's my hope that, as the resolution says, the Government of China will release him from prison and the President, when the President of China comes…

And the President could remove the A and the B, and just have the C. And when Ambassador Dybul was asked if any of the countries wanted waivers, they all said no.

The only thing your amendment would do is remove the A and the B from the ABC model.

This week politicians in Congress are trying to use our military troops as a bargaining chip for their own pork barrel and domestic projects. Some of these projects are designed to buy votes of wavering Members. The bill includes such…