From the shores of the Delaware and the banks of the Allegheny, to the streams and the creeks that feed them, Pennsylvanians know that water is vital to our health, our recreation, and our wildlife. Mr. Speaker, our waterways remain at…

We concluded that TIGTA produced a fundamentally flawed audit that harmed the public interest to such a severe extent that trust and confidence in TIGTA's independence, ethics, competence and quality control have been called into question.

The premise of the hearing today is getting full and efficient access to the information necessary to conduct effective oversight.

Responses like that are just ridiculous and cannot be tolerated if we are going to believe in transparency and consistency in our oversight process.

But I believe what the American public wants of us is to make the best of things, to take this law, to improve it, to make it work for everybody in the United States.

I hope that Governors in States that have so far not elected to expand Medicaid will reconsider, will consider the impact on their communities, to take advantage of this historic opportunity to lift up all of the Americans in their States.

By not participating, aren't the States that aren't leaving billions of Federal dollars on the table that could be used to improve the health of their own citizens?

It is so vital that we go back to exclusively engaging in social welfare as opposed to primarily.

What we are doing here seems to be something entirely different.

Anonymous money in politics is something we do not need in this country and something I have repeatedly said disrupts the normal and natural democratic process and must be changed.

We must shift our focus toward establishing a more objective and transparent set of standards for evaluating 504(c)(4) applicants involved in political activities.

Above all, we need to protect our American democracy and protect it so that it is not stolen away from us in the dark of night.