And, Mr. Chairman, I would ask unanimous consent also to enter into the record a letter dated February 22, 2015, from Brian de Vallance from the U.S.

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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

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

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.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my frustration in the process by which this bill was brought to the floor and my disappointment that the process has yielded a bill that I cannot support. This bill did not go through regular order. The…

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?

I do not apologize because I call it dark money because nobody knows where it came from.

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.