Matt Cartwright

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. I rise in support of the amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr. Lowenthal) which seeks to reinstate the 1983 Stream Buffer Rule. While the Reagan administration rule is not…

If stacked end to end, how far into space would those sofas reach is the question. It is a great point, Mr. Pocan. Of course, you know the answer. The answer is this: when we put that extra money in the pockets of the people who are making…

I think we are in agreement that there has to be control over the dark money.

I am not afflicted with the decades inside the Beltway that many of my brothers and sisters are afflicted with.

I think that is worth looking into. I think you make some sensible comments.

What we are up to right now is trying to craft a rule that answers what everybody has been screaming about on Capitol Hill.

Calling this kind of one-sided hearing and making false legal allegations, attacking the credibility of career Federal employees falls well short of that standard.

The deputy inspector general for investigations identified absolutely no evidence of political motivation after a review of more than 5,000 emails of IRS employees.

I am deeply troubled regarding IRS employees' improper handling of applications for tax-exempt status.

Sadly, only Tea Party groups are represented before this panel today.

The committee's 10-month-long investigation has uncovered no evidence to support claims that the IRS was targeting any groups for political reasons.

I do fear that the committee is once again presenting only one side of the story.

It is the policy of Congress that employees should be encouraged to exercise fully, freely, and without fear of penalty or reprisal, and to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, their right to participate or to refrain from…

I also am deeply troubled regarding IRS employees' improper handling of applications for tax-exempt status.

I am here protesting the one thing and the one thing alone, and that is this report that was dumped on us with--it is absolutely unfair.

The American public wants us to work together. They are hungry for Democrats and Republicans to work together.

This hearing is going to examine the loan program established under the Affordable Care Act to create non-profit, member-focused health insurance CO-OPs...

I protest conducting business in this fashion.

The American people expect more than this of us and they deserve more than this of us.

We in America, we are used to something called due process.

This is not working together. This is not a report that was generated just recently.

I will pledge to you today I will treat how the Government acts and how insurance companies act the same.

I believe the Affordable Care Act is a landmark law. It is obviously, by no means, perfect, it needs a lot of work, but all of us need to roll up our sleeves and work together and make it better.

I thank the gentleman. The answer is this: we don't have idiots as Federal judges in this country. If a Federal judge sees a situation where somebody is really acting egregiously, really abusing the system, really filing a frivolous case…

What this bill is really after is simply to make people afraid to go to court to assert their rights, to assert their voting rights, to assert their workplace safety rights, to assert the rights guaranteed them under the United States…