The bipartisan bill before us today is a much-needed fix for small- business owners and employees struggling to comply with the healthcare law. H.R. 1624 is a bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Public…

This is a good bill. It is an important bill. It is a bipartisan bill. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of H.R. 1624. I yield back the balance of my time.

This morning we are debating, actually, two bills. One is the delay of funds to Planned Parenthood until the investigation is over and redistributing that money to the rural and federally qualified community health clinics of which there…

Congress has a responsibility to ensure that proper incentives are put in place to increase the accountability inclusiveness of Medicaid.

That's why I'm so pleased today to be discussing several bipartisan bills that will help boost the accessibility and transparency of the Medicaid program.

It is my hope that through the steps currently taken in these bills, as well as any productive additions that may occur henceforth, this committee can come together to take meaningful steps towards Medicaid certainty, transparency, and…

Today, Medicaid is the world's largest health coverage program.

It is premature to draw any conclusions to this ongoing investigation.

it is just a real shame that it is OK to kill a child 3 months before it is born, but you kill it 3 months after it is born and you are going to go to jail.

I am going to crush above. I am going to see if I can get it all intact.

No State should be forced to continue to include providers in their Medicaid program who commit reprehensible acts.

I support efforts to amend the law and give States the discretion to exclude abortion providers from receiving taxpayer funding through Medicaid.

The real question for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law.

These clips have shown the gruesome reality we are talking about.

What must such a baby feel when she is approached by doctors who come to kill rather than to cure?

Mr. Pitts, do you think it is appropriate for millionaires or multimillionaires to be receiving Medicaid while at the same time there are disabled children on the waiting lists for home and community-based services?

Proposals that ensure Federal and state taxpayer dollars are spent appropriately on delivering quality care and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse from occurring should be supported.

Can you explain how it is that Medicaid policy permits million or multimillion dollar lottery winners to retain Medicaid coverage when they can clearly afford to purchase their own health insurance?

And I will never support a proposal that would take that coverage away.

However, Medicaid is the lifeline of nearly 72 million children, elderly, and low-income individuals depend on for health coverage.

It is my hope that through the policies we discuss today and through future actions by this committee, we can work together on a bipartisan basis to boost Medicaid program integrity.

I take protecting Medicaid seriously, and I have used some of the good program integrity proposals we have to consider here today as efforts to advance that goal.

I hope we can all agree that multimillion dollar lottery winners should not be eligible to receive Medicaid.

This is a common-sense policy that deserves our bipartisan support.

If Congress passes H.R. 1624, premiums will be lower and millions of employees and employers by letting them keep the plan they have and like.